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Colress Templates

Ship cards like you mean it.

Free printable wrap sheets for sending cards in a plain envelope: your shop's name on it, a pull tab on every card, one stamp to mail.

  1. Make it yoursYour shop, a thank-you, a stamp word, a tape color.
  2. Print at 100%US Letter, Actual size, no scaling. One sheet per card.Help with your printer
  3. Pack itSleeve, tab, saver, two strips of tape, fold in thirds.Watch it packed, 47 seconds
Your text
Tape and stamp color

Prints in color ink. On a black-and-white printer, pick Achroma.

Guide marks

Every label and the why: for learning the fold.

In the print window: Letter, Scale 100% (Actual size), headers and footers off. Step by step for your browser

Everything you type stays in your browser. A copied link carries your setup after the #, the part of a link no server ever sees.

ColressTCGThanks for the order.To open: peel tape A at its tab, then pull the sleeve tab. The card slides out untouched.colresstcg.comPACKEDcard saver, pull tabfold 2: top third downfold 1: bottom third upcard in a penny sleeve, sidewayscard's top points to the open end½ inlipdashed: where a 3 x 4 toploader sitsCard Saver I: about 3 5/16 x 4 7/8 inclosed bottomopen topsleeve tabsleeve tab: on the sleeve's back,½ in stuck, the rest folded overtape Atape A: over the opentop and onto the paper,end folded undertape BWhy it lies sideways: a #10 envelope is 4⅛ in tall and the card saver is 4⅞ in long,so it goes in on its side, open top facing right.Two strips and a tab, nothing on the sides: the folded sheet holds it, and it opens in one pull.Painter's tape peels off clean, and it never touches the card.01 in2 inscale check: this bar is 2 in. Shorter? Print again at 100% (Actual size).Colress Templates, free at colresstcg.com/templatesprint at 100% on US Letter
Live preview, open flat. It prints exactly like this.

Every template.

  • Wrap sheet, card saver

    The standard single, with your name and colors.

  • Wrap sheet, toploader

    The same sheet for a 3 x 4 toploader.

  • Lot sandwich cut guide

    Four cardboard pieces for a stack in a 4 x 8 mailer.

  • The packing standard

    These steps on paper, for the table you pack at.

Printing it right.

The sheets are drawn to size, so scale is the one setting that matters. Everything important stays ¼ in from the sides and ½ in from the bottom, so it fits what a home printer can reach. Use the Print buttons on this page: they print only the sheet.

Paper
US Letter, 8½ x 11 in.
Scale
100%, Actual size or Default. Never Fit to page or Shrink to fit.
Margins
Default. The sheet sets its own, inside what any home printer can reach.
Headers and footers
Off, so no date or web address prints on the sheet.
Color
Color for the tape colors. A black-and-white printer: pick Achroma first.
Chrome or Edge (Windows, Mac, Chromebook)
  1. Press a Print button on this page.
  2. Destination: your printer.
  3. Open More settings. Paper size: Letter. Margins: Default. Scale: Default (or Custom, 100), never Fit to printable area.
  4. Uncheck Headers and footers, then Print.
Safari (Mac)
  1. Press a Print button on this page.
  2. Pick your printer and click Show Details if you only see a small window.
  3. Paper Size: US Letter. Scale: 100%.
  4. Uncheck Print headers and footers, then Print.
Firefox
  1. Press a Print button on this page.
  2. Paper size: Letter. Scale: 100 (not Fit to page width).
  3. Under More settings, Margins: Default, and uncheck Print headers and footers.
  4. Print.
iPhone, iPad or Android
  1. Press a Print button on this page and pick your printer.
  2. Set the paper to Letter if it asks.
  3. Phones can resize a page on their own, so measure the 2 in bar before you pack. If it's short, print from a computer or save it as a PDF and print the PDF at Actual size.

Check one sheet before you pack

Measure the bar near the bottom of the sheet: it's 2 inches at 100%. If it's shorter, the print was scaled; set Scale to 100% and print again. Then lay a card saver on the outline, and it should just fit.

It came out smaller
Scaling was on. Set Scale to 100% (Actual size) and print again. In a PDF viewer, pick Actual size.
An edge is cut off
Set Margins to Default, not None: the sheet sets its own margins. Then turn off Borderless in your printer's settings and make sure the paper is Letter, not A4.
A date or web address printed
Turn off Headers and footers.
The whole website printed
Use the Print buttons on this page, not the browser's own Print menu.
Faint or streaky tape colors
The color ink is low. Pick Achroma: the tape prints as black hatching.
A4 paper
Print at 100%: the drawing fits A4. Trim about ¾ in off the bottom before folding, and it fits a #10 or a DL envelope.

How to pack it.

You need

  • Penny sleeve
  • Card Saver I (about 3 5/16 x 4 7/8 in, opens at the top)
  • Painter's tape, 1 in (three short strips)
  • The wrap sheet
  • #10 envelope (security-tint hides the contents)
  • A stamp, or printed postage
Card and sheet are real, everything else drawn to size. Music: “Wonderful” by Scott Buckley.

The standard.

Envelope
1 or 2 raw cards, $20 or less. Card saver, wrap sheet, #10. Bends, under ¼ in, one stamp.
Bubble mailer
3 cards or more, anything over $20, every lot. Weighed, labeled, tracked.
Tape
Painter's tape only: a sleeve tab, tape A on the open top, tape B on the closed bottom.
Never
Tape on a card, a loose card, the contents written outside, or a toploader when a saver will do.

Free for the hobby. Shops, creators, breakers and collectors: use it, print it, share your setup. Keep the small credit line so the next person can find it.