Paper Chain Questions

A template you open in the editor and export — as a PDF to print, or as a transparent PNG for a cutting machine. Print it as it is, or change it first.

Yes — A4 or US Letter, whichever your printer holds. Choose it in the editor before you export.

Printers love to shrink things to "fit the page". At 100% the pieces come out the size they were designed at.

Plain printer paper (80 gsm) works. Card stock (100–128 gsm) — stiff enough to hold the link, soft enough to loop. For the brightest colors on a home inkjet, use inkjet or photo paper and set print quality to Best — that's how it looks closest to the design on screen.

Three, and they're there to keep this personal: 10 downloads, a 90-day window to edit online and download (the files you download are yours to keep), and up to 5 saved copies of the design. Plenty for a party, a classroom, and a reprint when someone spills juice on the first one. Not enough to run a shop — that's the point.

Free templates come with 2 downloads.

This is a personal-use license — parties, classrooms, gifts, yes; selling the prints, no.

Not if you pick the slot version — the strips lock into each other.

Every strip on the sheet becomes a link. Print more sheets for a longer chain.

Both. A name on every link for a class of thirty, or one letter per link so the chain spells HAPPY BIRTHDAY as it hangs.