Membership Card ( PDF - 51KB)
Design with Hacker & Query characters.

Membership Card (design 1) ( DOC - 106KB)
Design with Hacker character.

Membership Card (design 2) ( DOC - 149KB)
Design with Hacker & Query characters.

If you'd like to provide membership cards for your students, here are some ideas to help you create them:

1. Open a Word Processing or Desktop Publishing document and create your own membership cards. Your software may have some templates available to help you with your design. You may want to use one of the characters from our Characters Library on your cards. If you are planning to print on paper that is already formatted into a page of cards, make sure your arrangement will work with the size cards you've selected. When you are satisfied with your arrangement of graphics in the document, print first on plain paper to make sure it is what you want. Then print on a sheet of formatted paper, regular paper, or photo paper. If you are using regular or photo paper, after your cards print, they'll need to be cut out.
2. 2. Use the Microsoft Word ® or pdf template provided for you in this section to create sets of membership cards or use one of them as a model for your own templates. See the notes below before printing.

Always pick the type of paper for the printer you are planning to use. If you don't, you may find that your colors bleed into each other and ruin your graphics. Depending upon the type of paper you pick, there may be a difference between the paper used in ink jet and laser printers. Follow the directions for the paper you select.

For your membership cards, you'll need to decide if you want to use matte or glossy finish paper.

The templates provided in this section should work well with photo paper or plain paper. You may also want to try printing them on business card paper that is formatted to create small membership-sized cards. You local stores may not carry this type of formatted paper, so you may have to order it online from an office supply store.

Be warned that although the pdf provided will work with many (formatted) papers and printers, how your pages come out will depend upon your paper and printer. Using the MS Word template, you can change around the copy to fit the formatted paper you have.

Formatted paper usually comes with a regular paper template that you can duplicate and use before you try printing on your business card-formatted paper. It's wise to print on the regular paper template first because you don't want to ruin a sheet of the formatted paper.

If you find that when you print the template to the regular paper template that the cards are not positioned as they should be, you'll need to create your own document as described in #1 above or by designing the MS Word template. That way you can position the cards to work with your paper and printer.

You'll probably be able to find business card-formatted paper at office supply stores, but you can also order the paper online. Glossy cards cost more than matte-finish cards, with the matte running less than $20 for 200 cards and the glossy, less than $25.

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