What makes a printed code scan, what makes one die, and the numbers to check before anything goes to the printer.
New season
Scan to shop
The best QR code generators in 2026 compared on free plans, editing after printing, scan tracking, billing and what happens to your codes when you stop paying.
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Review us on Google
Print Google review QR code cards, stands, stickers and plaques that customers actually scan. Sizes, wording, where to place each one, and the rules to follow.
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Open day
Scan for the schedule
How to print a QR code that scans: size it from the scan distance, export SVG or PDF, print at 100% scale, and test a proof on two phones before the full run.
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Jordan Hale
Hale Studio
Add a QR code in business card designs: pick static or dynamic, size it 1 inch or wider, and test a proof. Printing runs about $0.20–$0.46 per card.
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Guest Wi-Fi
Scan to connect
Learn how to share wifi password access from iPhone, Android, laptops, and TVs using built-in prompts, QR codes, and a safer guest network.
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Wildflower honey
Scan for the farm
Learn the right QR code sticker size for any scan distance, then create, print, and test your own stickers in four steps.
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New EP
Scan to listen
Put your songs, a podcast episode or an audio guide behind a QR code. When to link to Spotify and when to host the file, how to prepare the audio, where to print the code and how to see what gets played.
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Menu
Scan to order
A practical guide to restaurant QR code menus. What to link the code to, where to put it on the table, how big to print it, and the mistakes that make guests ask for paper.
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Spring Makers Market
Scan for tickets
Where to place a QR code on a flyer, how big to print it, what to link it to and how to tell which stack of flyers worked. A practical guide with the mistakes to avoid.
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Made in an afternoon
Canva makes static QR codes, so the link is baked into the pattern and nothing can switch it off. That also means you cannot change where it points or count a single scan.
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Opening hours
Printed in 2023
The printed pattern is ink and cannot expire. The redirect behind a dynamic code lasts as long as the plan paying for it, so the answer depends on which kind of code you printed.
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Scan to join
Open the camera, point it at the code, tap the link that appears. Fixes for codes that refuse to scan, and how to judge a link before you tap it.
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Care & reorder
Error correction lets a damaged QR code scan anyway. The four levels recover 7, 15, 25 or 30 percent of the pattern, and each step up costs density.
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SVG · PDF · PNG
Print-ready
Raster formats pixelate when scaled; vector formats redraw sharp at any size. When a 300 DPI PNG is fine, when printers demand vector, and a CMYK note.
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Today's specials
Scan for the menu
A QR code carries a link, and a link can lead anywhere. How quishing works, how to check a code before trusting it, and what we scan for on our end.
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Readable from the street
Divide the scan distance by 10 to get your minimum code width. A size chart from business cards to billboards, plus quiet zone and density rules.
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Spring Sessions
Scan for the line-up
Scan analytics count scans by day, city, country, device and OS, with no personal data attached. How dynamic codes make it work and where the numbers blur.
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Film night
Scan for the trailer
Tag QR destinations with source, medium and campaign and print shows up in GA4 next to your other channels. Conventions plus a builder that applies them.
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Northwind Supply
Minimum size, the 10:1 distance rule, quiet zones, and error correction levels. The handful of numbers that decide whether a printed QR code scans.
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Menu
Scan to order
A static QR code stores its content in the pattern forever; a dynamic one stores an editable, trackable redirect. Side by side, and when to print each.
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Farm shop
A dynamic QR code works for as long as the redirect behind it stays on, and that length is a billing rule. What ends a code's life, and what to check before you send anything to the printer.
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