What is the size of visiting card ?
Business Card Size in different units:
There is as much confusion as the number of people as far as a visiting card size goes, with so many measures for measuring paper sizes like A0,A1,A2,.. A8, then DL, B series.
To start with earlier there used to be no standard size of visiting card globally, but from 2014 onwards and in 2015 and beyond we will see standardisation in the size of card which will be near to below mentioned units.
| Measurement unit/Visiting Card Size | Actual Size | Design Size | Safe margin |
| Millimeter (mm) | 90 (width) x 54 (height) | 94 (width) x 58 (height) | 4 mm from edges |
| Centimeter (cm) | 9 (width) x 5.4 (height) | 9.4 (width) x 5.8 (height) | 0.4 cm from edges |
| Inch (inch) | 3.54 (width) x 2.125 (height) | 3.7 (width) x 2.28 (height) | 0.15 inch from edges |
| Pixels (inch) | 1062 (width) x 637 (height) | 1110 (width) x 684 (height) | 45 pixels from edges |
Determining business card size:
I would try to demystify the whole business of business cards printing and its corresponding size concern, business cards are either printed through digital machine which advertise in the form of instant digital printed visiting cards in 1 hour , these digital machines print on paper of size 12'x18' or 13' x 19' and can fit in maximum 24 cards in one sheet of 12'x18' paper with 3 columns and 8 rows, there need to be bleed area and crop/cut marks on all corners and between the three columns and eight rows as well for perfect cutting of business cards, hence available 12' inches width divide by 3 will be 4' after leaving edges and cut / crop marks 3.62' is available width after cutting and 18 inches divided by 8 number of rows leaving 2.125' for height. Most digital printers will ask you to send your visiting card design in corel draw format, as corel draw i.e CDR format itself has an option to make one visiting card design spread in rectangular grid of 3 columns and 8 rows with the help of shortcut key with printers to need not worry about the trim mark, crop mark or bleed mark.
Visiting cards printing when done through offset machines requires sufficient number of cards to make offset printing run profitably, offset printing machines are of size 18'x23', 18'x25', 22'x28', 30'x40' being standard sizes available in India, offset printing machine also result in business cards of same size as digital printing machine.
It is important to note that certain printers may reduce the size of business cards by little bit to fit in one extra column or rows to print more number of cards.
If you are looking for printing visiting card in different size than standard sizes mentioned above then you need to first get it printed in same size as mentioned above if you are printing through offset printer leaving all sides blank for cutting to take place after cards are printed, digital printers can easily adjust business card as per your requirement though they may charge you a premium for doing that.
Visiting cards printing size may vary slightly though in European countries as per international paper size and machine used there, though the change would not be that large.