Wallet-size cards for a bag, a glovebox, or a stack by a front desk. This is the one to print if you meet people.
The front of the sheet. Long green dashes are where you cut. The codes print on the back.
8 cards per sheet, 4.25 × 2.75 in
PDF, 2 pages, 362 KB — page 1 is the fronts, page 2 is the backs
The QR sits on the back of every card. Print one-sided and you get cards with the web address on them but no code to scan — workable in a pinch, much weaker in practice
Important: print at 100% / "Actual size". Not "Fit to page", not "Shrink to fit".
100% / Actual sizeApps word this differently. Preview and Adobe say Actual size. Chrome and Edge say Scale: Default — the thing to check there is that Fit to printable area is NOT ticked. If all you get is a percentage box, type 100.
Color
Yes, if you have it — black and white is fine
Then cut: one cut down the middle and three across, following the dashed guides printed on the sheet. Eight two-sided cards.
Leave it on a counter
Counter flyer
A half-sheet with tear-off tabs, sized for a reception desk, a coffee shop counter, or a waiting-room table.
The front of the sheet. The long green dash down the middle is the cut; the fine coral dots are where people tear. The tab codes print on the back.
2 flyers per sheet, 5.5 × 8.5 in
4 tear-off tabs on each flyer
PDF, 2 pages, 333 KB — the big QR at the top is on page 1; the tabs get theirs from page 2. Print one-sided and the flyer itself still scans, but the tabs carry an email address and nothing to scan
Important: print at 100% / "Actual size". The tear-off tabs carry the smallest code on this sheet — shrink the page and they stop scanning.
100% / Actual sizeApps word this differently. Preview and Adobe say Actual size. Chrome and Edge say Scale: Default — the thing to check there is that Fit to printable area is NOT ticked. If all you get is a percentage box, type 100.
Color
Yes, if you have it — black and white is fine
Then cut: one cut down the middle of the sheet, on the faint dotted line, gives you two identical flyers. Snip up between the tabs so they tear off cleanly.
Pin it on a board
Bulletin board poster
A full-page poster with eight tear-off tabs. For a community board, a break room, a church foyer, a clinic corridor.
Fine coral dots are where people tear. Nothing to cut, and the tab codes are on this face as well as the back.
1 poster per sheet, 11 × 8.5 in
8 tear-off tabs along the bottom
PDF, 2 pages, 336 KB — the big QR at the top is on page 1; the tear-off tabs get theirs from page 2, and their front carries the email address. Print one-sided and the poster itself still scans, but the tabs people take away will not
Important: print at 100% / "Actual size". The tabs carry the smallest code on this sheet — shrink the page and they stop scanning.
100% / Actual sizeApps word this differently. Preview and Adobe say Actual size. Chrome and Edge say Scale: Default — the thing to check there is that Fit to printable area is NOT ticked. If all you get is a percentage box, type 100.
Color
Yes, if you have it — black and white is fine
Then pin it up. Nothing to cut. Snip up between the tabs first, so the first person does not have to tear two at once.
Each button opens the PDF in a new tab so you can read it before you print anything — the printer settings stay on the tab behind it. (On many Android phones it downloads and opens in your PDF viewer instead.)
Ten seconds, before the paper goes out
Scan your own print
Nobody will ever tell you the code did not work. They will just walk away. So check it yourself while the sheet is still in your hand.
Open the camera app on any phone.
Point it at the smallest QR on the sheet — a tear-off tab if it has them, otherwise any single card. The big codes are the forgiving ones; the small ones are the real test.
A link to carehaven.org should pop up within a second or two.
If nothing appears, do not reprint yet — check three things, in this order. (a) Is anything printed on the BACK of the sheet? If not, it printed one-sided. On all three, the tab and card codes live on the back — only the big QR at the top of the poster and the counter flyer is on page 1 — so the tabs and cards have nothing to scan yet — see Ordinary paper is fine below for how to get the second side. (b) Turn the sheet over. Is the back upside down, or is the strip of tabs at the wrong end? Then the flip edge was wrong. Reprint using the Sides line from the card above — long edge for the cards, short edge for the counter flyer and the poster. (c) Only if (a) and (b) both look right, it printed too small. Reprint with the scale set to 100% / "Actual size".
Why this is fussy: the tear-off tabs on the counter flyer and the poster carry the smallest code we print. "Fit to page" and "Shrink oversized pages" shrink a letter sheet to make room for a printer's unprintable margin — by just enough to kill those small codes, and you cannot tell by looking at the paper. That is exactly what the ten-second scan above is for. The big code on the handout cards is far more forgiving; the tabs are the ones worth testing.
Paper
Ordinary paper is fine
Plain copier paper works for all three. If your printer takes card stock, the handout cards feel a lot less like a receipt — but it is not required, and a plain-paper card handed to the right person still does the job.
No color printer? Print it anyway. These flyers are dark text on a light background, so they come out perfectly readable in black and white, and a QR code is black and white to begin with.
Printer only does one side? There is still a good option and a workable one. The good one: print the bulletin board poster or the counter flyer. The big QR at the top is on page 1, so the flyer itself scans from a single pass; its tear-off tabs will carry the email address but no code. The workable one: do the second side by hand — print page 1, put the printed sheet back in the paper tray, then print page 2. Which way up to reload depends on your printer, so run one sheet, look at it, and only then print the rest. Either way, scan a tab or a card before you hand any of it out.
Not printing anything?
Then send it to one person
Honestly, this helps more than a poster does. If you know one family carrying complex care — a parent, a spouse, someone looking after an aging mother — send them this:
carehaven.org/beta
It is a free beta of an iPhone app that keeps medications, appointments, patterns and caregiver handoffs in one place. One person who needs it beats a hundred who do not.
What the paper actually says: that CareHaven is an iPhone app for families managing complex care, and an invitation to try the free beta and tell us what to build. Its biggest line is “Beta testers wanted — no tech skills required.” There is nothing to buy on the paper and nothing to fill in on it.
CareHaven LLC is an independent, founder-owned company — not a nonprofit and not a registered charity. We do not accept donations, and there is nothing to buy on this page. Handing a card to someone who needs it is the whole of what we are asking for, and right now it is genuinely the thing that helps most.
Questions, or want a stack of these printed properly for an event or an office? Reach us at info@carehaven.org.
