Business cards are very important in our life. They make people aware and build a lasting image of you and your business, build and maintain relationships, and save time and effort writing down contact information.
Many applications for creating and printing business cards at home exist today on different platforms. Let’s go over the features that are a must for up-to-date business card maker software.
Many manufacturers sell label paper for card printing. To help users to work with the paper formats of most of them, the business card maker software must have the list of paper formats. And, of course, easy navigation and convenient search options for such lists are a big plus.
They can be images for clip art and backgrounds, usually combined into image libraries. Also, most products contain pre-made templates. These templates make the card creation process really easy, allowing you to finish your design in just a few steps.
Ability to import addresses or contact details, either from the built-in database or, even better, another application such as Agenda, etc.
The built-in barcode generator becomes more and more important for business cards nowadays. It is preferable to have QR Code and Data Matrix symbologies, which are capable of storing large amounts of data. You can encode URLs and add them to your card, or even get all of a specific person’s contact information encrypted in vCard format.
Recently, the application began to make advanced technologies available to its users, such as the Google Maps service. It is very convenient to provide the image of the location on a map in addition to the text address.
Having advanced features at hand is also quite useful. Let’s say, image editing options. The product that allows transform, crop, noise, mosaic, change colors, gray scale, add brightness, contrast, tint, rotate, bump, pinch your images becomes more attractive to users. Or the text features like circle or boosted text to do awesome text transformations along paths, custom fills, strokes, shadows. All this gives a great boost to your creativity and improves the final result.