Print your own QR decal, free, on any printer

Buying a vinyl kit is the easy path, and for a car that lives outdoors it is the right one. But nothing about QR calling requires it. The decal generator on your QR dashboard draws your code at its real physical size and prints it on whatever you have — and a paper decal behind glass works perfectly well.

The sheet is the unit, not the sticker

A4 at an ordinary printer margin gives you a printable rectangle of 7.75 × 11.2 inches — the same rectangle whichever way up you hold the page. Every size below is a whole division of it, so nothing is ever shrunk to fit and one sheet carries several decals at once.

Turned sideways — A4 landscape

• 11.2" × 3" heavy-duty strip. The longest bar that prints on A4, with the biggest QR and the biggest wordmark. Readable from across a car park: a shop shutter, a compound gate, a fleet vehicle. Two per sheet.
• 11.2" × 2" panoramic strip. Along the bottom or top of a windscreen, or across a gate, where a square sticker would block a view. Three per sheet.

Upright — A4 portrait

• 7.75" × 3" gate panel. The same message as the heavy-duty bar, on a page that has not been turned. Gates, shutters, office doors. Three per sheet.
• 7.75" × 2" compact strip. A short windscreen or dashboard bar. Five per sheet.

Either way up

• 4" × 5" door plate. A portrait block for beside a doorbell or a letterbox, at eye height. Two per sheet.
• 3.5" × 3.5" glass square. The corner of a windscreen or a glass door, where a bar would block the view. Six per sheet.
• 3.5" × 2" small tag. Bikes, helmets, scooters, laptop lids, post boxes. Cheap enough to put everywhere. Ten per sheet.

Packs, or a mix of your own

You are no longer picking one sticker. Pick a ready-made pack — the Home & gate pack is five decals on a single sheet, Everything is fifteen across three — or open Mix your own and set a quantity against each size. Either way the generator packs the sheet for you and tells you how many sheets it comes to before you print, so a page is never one sticker with four inches of white under it.

Vehicle or door changes more than the wording

The generator asks what the decal is for before it asks anything else, and the answer changes the whole thing. A vehicle decal reads need this vehicle moved? and offers wrong parking, blocked gate, lights left on and tow warning. A door decal reads digital doorbell and notice and offers visitor, courier, building maintenance and urgent notice.

Same code, same account. Print both.

The colour cuts

Clean vinyl is black on white and uses ordinary black ink, which makes it by far the cheapest to print and the easiest to read. Start here.

Safety yellow is the high-visibility cut: black on amber, with the brand rule and the URGENT block in lime. Use it where the decal has to be noticed rather than merely found — a gate, a loading bay, anything at night.

Stealth dark is near-black with white type and a lime rule. It looks best on a dark car and is the most expensive of the three to print, because it covers the whole sheet in ink.

The 12-inch strip is gone, and that is the improvement

Until September 2026 the widest decal was 12 inches. A4 in landscape is 11.69 inches wide, so after any sane printer margin a 12-inch strip had to come down by about 7% — and on the paper almost everyone actually owns, the "12 inch" strip printed at 11.2 and the generator had to explain why. Legal and A3 were offered as the way out, and almost nobody has Legal or A3.

The widest strip is now 11.2 inches, which is exactly what A4 landscape gives you. Everything prints at 100%, at the size it says, on plain A4, with the paper the only choice left to make — upright or sideways.

The preview is the sheet itself, at scale. What you see is the page that comes out.

What to print on, in order of how long it lasts

1. Self-adhesive matte vinyl, cut to size. This is what the posted kits are. Years outdoors.
2. Ordinary paper, laminated, then taped inside the glass. Cheap and surprisingly durable — the glass does the weatherproofing.
3. Ordinary paper, behind the windscreen. Free, works today, and will go yellow in a few months. Perfectly good for trying the product.

What does not work is unlaminated paper stuck to the outside of anything. One monsoon and the code is unreadable, which for a QR means it does not scan at all rather than looking a bit tired.

Two things worth checking before you print

Print at 100%. "Fit to page" silently rescales the sheet, and a decal that arrives 8% small is a decal whose measurements you can no longer trust.

Scan it before you stick it. Open your own camera, scan the printed code from the distance people will actually stand at, and check the page opens. A code that is too small, too pale or printed in draft mode fails in exactly this test and nowhere else.

The optional label row

There is a field for a plate number or a flat number — KL-07-CC-1234, Flat 402 · Main gate. Leave it empty and the row does not print at all.

It is worth filling in for a door or a gate, where it tells a courier which flat they have reached. On a car it is your own call: it makes the decal obviously yours, and it also puts your registration on a sticker in a car park.

When to just buy the kit

If the decal goes on the outside of a vehicle, on a gate, or anywhere it gets rained on, printed paper is a stopgap. The vinyl kits start at ₹249, arrive with calling balance already loaded, and are posted free anywhere in India — and if you would like to sell them as well as use them, that side of it is here.

New to the product? Start here.