Dynamic QR Codes

Print your codes

A QR code does nothing until it’s somewhere a phone can reach it — a hangtag, a shelf card, a poster. Dynamic QR Codes turns any code you’ve created into a print-ready PDF right in your browser, with no design tool in between: one big code, a sheet of copies, or a whole selection of different codes at once. Pro

Printing starts from a code you’ve already created. In a product’s QR codes box and on a campaign’s page, every saved code has a Print button on its row; on All QR Codes, tick the code and use Print selected. Either way the Customise print settings window opens.

The preview on the left is the page itself — it redraws as you change anything on the right. It always uses the code’s current design, label and caption, so a code you edited or restyled after creating it prints the way it looks now. When it’s right, pick one of the actions in the footer:

  • Download PDF — save the file to send to a printer or a print shop.
  • Print — hand it straight to your browser’s print dialog.
  • Save layout — keep these print settings for this code so you can reprint it later in one click (see Print layouts).

PDFs are compressed, so they stay small enough to email to a print shop, and they’re named after the code: {label}-{identifier}.pdf for one code (for example Summer-hangtag-k7m2xa.pdf), qr-codes-{n}.pdf when the page holds several.

One big code, or a sheet of copies

The Mode switch on the Paper tab is the choice that matters most:

  • Single — one code per page, sized and positioned how you like. Right for a poster, a sign or a single card.
  • Sheet — codes tiled across a grid you set, so one A4 page becomes a sheet of cut-out labels. Right for hangtags, shelf cards or table tents you produce in bulk.

In Sheet mode you set the grid — columns × rows — and it tells you how many fit per page. The code size is then worked out from the paper and the grid; if it drops below 25 mm the window warns you (“Below 25 mm — may not scan reliably”).

Paper, layout & marks

  • Paper — mode, format (A4, A3, A5, Letter or a custom size), portrait or landscape, units (mm or in) and the page margin.
  • Layout — in Single mode, the code size and its position on the page; in Sheet mode, the grid and the padding between cells.
  • Marks — optional cut marks on each cell, a border around each code, or a dashed border around the printable area (leave that one off for production prints).

Your house style. Set these once under QR Codes → Settings → Print (Print defaults) and every print window opens with them filled in. Each print job can still change them; Reset to defaults puts the tab back to the plugin’s originals.

On QR Codes → All QR Codes, tick the codes you want, choose Print selected from the bulk actions and click Apply. The print window opens with every selected code in one PDF — in Sheet mode each cell holds the next code, in Single mode each code gets its own page. You can print up to 200 codes in one go.

The same window opens from Print these N codes right after you create blank codes, and from Print selected in an order’s QR codes for this order box. A print of several codes can’t be saved as a layout — layouts belong to one code.

Print the code’s address under it

The Code address option in the print window — Print each code’s address under it — adds the short address (like mystore.com/q/k7m2xa) under each code. Two reasons to want it: a customer whose camera won’t cooperate can type it in, and you can tell printed codes apart at a glance, because the last six characters are the code’s identifier.

It’s off for an ordinary print and on by default when you print a batch of blank codes you’ve just created — those are assigned later with Scan a code, and the printed address lets you type the code in if the camera can’t read it. The option applies to that print job only; it isn’t saved with a layout.

Click Save layout in the print window and the plugin keeps the settings — mode, paper, grid, marks — for that code. It doesn’t store a PDF. Saved layouts are listed under a Print layouts tab in three places: in the product’s QR codes box, on the campaign’s page, and store-wide on All QR Codes → Print layouts.

Click Reprint on a layout and the print window opens with those settings, using the code’s current design and details — “Reprints use the code’s current design and details.” If you’ve edited the code since you saved the layout (a new coupon, label, caption or design), the layout shows a Changed since saved badge so the reprint doesn’t surprise you. Delete a layout you no longer need from the same list — the code itself is kept.

Coming from 1.x? Print layouts replace the old Print Sheets, which were saved as PDF files. Those 1.x PDFs are no longer listed in the plugin, but nothing was deleted — they’re still in your Media Library as ordinary files. To reprint one of those codes with today’s details, print the code again and save a new layout.

Captions print as part of the image, so accented and non-Latin text comes out correctly. If the code’s logo is hosted on another domain that won’t allow it, the window tells you: “Logo couldn’t be loaded from another domain — upload it to the Media Library.” Upload the logo there and pick it again in QR design.

Next: More ways to use codes →