The 3" button is a big one: 76.2 mm face, 87.66 mm cut circle and 73.02 mm safe area. 5 fit on a Letter sheet and 6 in a grid on an A4 sheet. It's the size for photos, event names with dates and messages meant to be read from a distance.
With the editor's default settings: 10 mm margins and 2 mm spacing between pieces. The preview is the same sheet the print window lays out.
Letter sheet: 5 hexagonal · 4 grid
Letter sheet with 5 3" (76.2 mm) buttons
A4 sheet: 5 hexagonal · 6 grid
A4 sheet with 6 3" (76.2 mm) buttons
3 inch measurements
You print and cut an 87.66 mm circle. About 5.73 mm per side wraps behind the shell, more than on small sizes, so the background has to extend well past the visible edge.
The 73.02 mm safe area leaves room for a photo, a name and a date. Keep each line inside the blue circle in the editor.
On A4, switch to the grid layout
With the editor's measurements, A4 holds 6 three-inch buttons in a grid and 5 in the hexagonal layout. On Letter it's the other way around: 5 hexagonal and 4 in a grid. Check the layout in the print window before printing.
What works at 3 inches
Photo buttons for birthdays and memorials, campaign slogans, convention badges with a name. Big sizes show every flaw, so use images with enough resolution: the editor exports at 300 DPI.
The template has the 87.66 mm cut circle in red, the visible edge in green and the safe area in blue. If the red circle doesn't measure exactly that on paper, the printer's scale is the problem, not the design.
There's a 50 mm ruler in the top margin: measure it with a real ruler before you cut the batch. If it isn't 50 mm, check that the print dialog is set to actual size (100%) and not “fit to page”.
1Print at actual size (100%), not “fit to page”.
2Measure the 50 mm ruler in the top margin.
3If it still doesn't match, open Settings and adjust the scale in the Settings & Calibration window, or download the cut test sheet.
4With paper heavier than 150 gsm, turn on “Heavy paper” in the print window: it trims the printed area by 0.5 mm so the paper doesn't jam in the press.
Blank template to print
A sheet with the cut lines, the visible edge and the safe area, in the same positions the editor uses. It needs a free account and doesn't count toward your downloads.
