How many fit on a sheet?

Yes: under “Mixed sizes on one sheet” list each piece with its width, height and how many you need, and say whether it may be turned. The calculator fills one sheet after another until every piece is placed and gives a cutting plan as a PDF. For boards and other material that is cut, tick “Cutting material” to keep the width of the cut between pieces and to stop pieces being turned against the grain.

Set the size of the item and the sheet, then under Put your design on it choose your PDF or picture: the calculator places it in every spot of the layout and gives you one PDF with crop marks. A PDF that is already the right size (a 5 × 7 in invitation, an 85 × 55 mm card) prints at its own size; a bigger page or a picture is fitted to the item, or fills it with the edges cut off. With a two-page PDF the second page can be a sheet of backs, placed to line up when you print both sides. Your file is read in your browser and never uploaded.

Four, if you are cutting the sheet down: A6 is A4 halved twice, so four fill it exactly with no waste — set the margin and gap above to 0 and pick A6 as the item. A printer changes the answer. With the 10 mm margin most home printers need and a 4 mm gap to cut between, only 2 fit, because the printable area is no longer a whole A4. The same halving gives 8 A4 sheets from one A1, and two of any A-size from the next size up.

Nine, in a 3 × 3 grid, when the standard 85 × 55 mm European card is turned sideways and a 10 mm printer margin is kept clear. Left upright it drops to eight, because the sheet then only takes two across. US cards at 89 × 51 mm give eight on Letter with the same margin and 4 mm gap, or ten if you close the gap so neighbouring cards share a cut line. The calculator above shows the arrangement rather than just the number, because the orientation is the part people get wrong.

Two on A4 and two on Letter, turned sideways, with a 10 mm margin and a 4 mm gap to cut between. A 5 × 7 in print is 127 × 178 mm, so a single one fills most of the width and only the length has room for a second. Choose "Photo 5 × 7 in" above to see the arrangement and print the cut guides.

Four on A4 and four on Letter, two across and two down, with the default margin and gap. The same answer holds for 3 × 5 in flash cards, which are index cards by another name. Print on card stock of about 160–200 gsm (roughly 60–75 lb cover) if they will be handled.

A poker-size card is 2.5 × 3.5 in (63.5 × 88.9 mm). With a 10 mm margin and a 4 mm gap, eight fit on A4 and six on Letter. The familiar sheet of nine in a 3 × 3 grid needs the gap closed and the margin down to 5 mm, because the grid alone is 190.5 × 266.7 mm — set both above and it appears, on A4 and on Letter alike. Check first that your printer can print that close to the edge. On a 12 × 12 in scrapbook or craft sheet, twelve fit — three by four — with the same margin and gap, and still twelve cut edge to edge: choose "Custom sheet size…" and enter 12 × 12 in.

15 squares of 5 × 5 cm (three across, five down) and 54 of 3 × 3 cm (6 × 9), with a 10 mm printer margin and the squares touching, so one cut serves two edges. With a 4 mm gap to cut between, 5 cm squares still give 15 on A4, while 3 cm squares drop to 40. On Letter, 5 cm squares give 15 touching and 12 with the gap. Choose "Square 5 × 5 cm" above or type any size: tiles, boxes, stickers and cut-outs all follow the same arithmetic.

It depends only on the sticker size and how you cut. Rectangular 7 × 3 cm stickers give 18 on A4 butted together for a trimmer, or 16 with a 4 mm gap for cutting by hand; on Letter, 18 and 15, turned sideways. For round stickers choose Circle above and enter the diameter. To print text on a sticker sheet, the label sheet generator lays out every sticker with its text as a PDF.

Leave a sealed edge of about 3 mm of laminate around every card, or the pouch can peel open where you cut, so set the gap between cards to at least 6 mm. A7 flash cards (74 × 105 mm) with that gap give four on A4 and four on Letter: the same as with no gap, because the 10 mm printer margin is what limits them. 3 × 5 in cards give four on A4 and three on Letter. Laminate the whole printed sheet, then cut along the guides this tool draws.

Choose "Custom sheet size…" in the Sheet menu and type the sheet's width and height, in mm, cm or inches. Cutting A4 pieces from a large sheet (margin and gap set to 0): a 12 × 18 in press sheet gives two, a 64 × 90 cm sheet nine and a 22 × 28 in cartolina four. Dividing the areas suggests six from the cartolina, but only whole A4 rectangles count, and the rest is offcut. Printing changes the answer again: a printer that keeps a 10 mm margin fits only one A4 on 12 × 18 in, because a sideways A4 is 297 mm wide and only about 285 mm of the sheet is printable. The same works for covering a surface: enter a table top or a wall panel as the sheet. A 4 × 3 ft board takes 16 A4 sheets edge to edge, turned sideways (four across and four down), although its area would suggest 17. A 2 × 3 ft poster board holds 42 photos of 3½ × 5 in edge to edge (six across and seven down), or 36 with a 10 mm border and 4 mm gaps between them.

Because a sheet is rarely a whole multiple of an item in either direction, and the leftover differs by orientation. An 85 mm card across a 190 mm printable width leaves 20 mm wasted; turned, 55 mm divides into 190 three times with 25 mm spare but gains a whole extra row down the length. The calculator tries both and keeps the better, telling you when it turned the item.

Let them touch when you will cut with a guillotine or trimmer: one straight cut serves both neighbours, there is no waste strip, and the layout fits more. Leave a gap of 3–5 mm when cutting by hand with scissors, when the design has a background that runs to the edge and needs bleed, or when slight misalignment would be visible. The tool draws different guides for each: continuous lines for touching items, individual outlines with crop marks when there is a gap.

Ten millimetres is safe on essentially every home printer and is the default here. Most machines can reach a little closer, often 3–5 mm, but not reliably and rarely at the trailing edge — and a layout that assumes more than the printer delivers loses its bottom row entirely. If you know your printer’s real printable area, use that; otherwise keep 10 mm and accept one fewer row.

Yes — anything rectangular. A 10 × 15 cm photo gives two per A4, a 4 × 6 inch photo — called 4R in much of Asia — the same (two on Letter), and A6 postcards two per sheet, all with the default margin and gap. For photographs, check the resolution holds at the printed size before committing a sheet of photo paper: our image quality analyser reports the effective PPI for any target size.

Almost always print scaling. If the dialog is set to Fit to page rather than Actual size, the whole sheet shrinks by 3–6% and every item with it — cards come out at 82 × 53 mm instead of 85 × 55, and pre-cut stock no longer aligns. Print at 100% and verify once with our calibration sheet before running a batch.