Table Tents, Posters and Stickers: Print-Ready QR Code Designs for Your Tables
Every venue that switches to a digital menu ends up with the same small problem. The menu looks great on the phone, and the thing pointing guests to it is a black and white square printed on office paper and taped to the table. It works, and it also quietly undoes the impression the menu just made.
Print designs solve that. It takes the QR code you already have and lays it out on the physical formats a venue actually uses: a folded table tent, an A4 poster, a square sticker and a pocket business card. Everything is set in your own brand colours and can carry a background pattern designed from your logo. You can find it at /admin/settings/print-designs, or from the Print designs button on your Branding page.
The Four Formats
Each format is a real print spec, not a screen mockup. They all come with 3 mm of bleed and crop marks, so a print shop can trim them without eating into the design, and the table tent adds a dashed fold line down the middle of the sheet.
| Format | Size | Where it goes |
|---|---|---|
| Table tent | Folded A4, 210 x 297 mm | Stands upright on the table, QR visible from both sides |
| A4 poster | 210 x 297 mm | Wall, counter, window or a display stand |
| Square sticker | 100 x 100 mm | Corner of the table, or used as a coaster |
| Business card | 85 x 55 mm | Pocketable hand-out, bill folder, takeaway bag |
Most venues need more than one. A table tent on every table, a poster by the door so people can read the menu before they sit down, and a stack of cards at the till for takeaway is a common starting set.
Let the AI Design a Pattern From Your Logo
The part that usually needs a designer is the background. Instead of picking from stock patterns, you can have one generated from your own logo, so the pattern inherits your shapes and colours rather than approximating them.
Upload your logo in Branding first, because the generator reads it directly. Then choose a vibe, which sets the overall direction every variant will lean into: bright and fun, warm and everyday, earthy and hand-crafted, refined and restrained, spare and geometric, or high-contrast. Say who is sitting at the table, whether that is any guest, young adults or professionals, and add a free-text note for references, must-haves and anything to avoid.
You get several variants back. Choose one and it is saved to your branding, which means the same pattern is then available across your print designs rather than living only on the sheet you happened to be editing.
What You Can Turn On and Off
The design pulls from your brand settings, and each piece can be switched off when a format gets crowded. A poster has room for everything; a business card usually does not.
- Header ornament, the decorative element across the top
- Footer ornament, its counterpart at the bottom
- Background pattern, the generated or chosen fill behind everything
- Brand colours, taken from your branding rather than re-picked here
These choices are held per format. Turning the background pattern off on the business card does not strip it from the poster, so you can let each piece breathe at its own size instead of settling on one compromise that suits none of them.
Downloading Something a Printer Will Accept
Three download formats sit under the preview, and which one you want depends entirely on where the file is going.
| Download | Use it for |
|---|---|
| PDF (print-ready) | Sending to a print shop. Carries the bleed, crop marks and the table tent fold line |
| PNG (300dpi) | Printing in-house, or dropping into a social post or a slide |
| SVG | Handing to a designer who needs to edit the artwork, since it stays vector at any size |
There is also a download-all button that exports every format as a print-ready PDF in one go, which is the fastest way to brief a printer on a full set rather than exporting four files by hand.
How This Differs From the Other Print Options
NEMENU has two separate things that end up on paper, and it is worth being clear about which one you want. Print designs, covered here, produce signage: the stand, the poster, the sticker, the card, all pointing at your menu. The printable menu is a different feature that lays out the menu itself on paper, with paper sizes, columns and an optional QR corner, and it is covered in Print Your Digital Menu (/blog/print-your-digital-menu-pro).
If what you want to change is the code itself, its colours, its dot and eye shapes, or a logo in the middle, that happens in the QR generator and is covered in Beautiful QR Codes in Seconds (/blog/qr-code-generation-customization-digital-menu). Print designs take whichever code you have settled on and put it on something worth leaving on a table.
A Practical Order to Work In
- Upload your logo and set your brand colours in Branding, since everything downstream reads from there
- Generate a brand pattern and save the variant you like
- Open Print designs and start with the table tent, which is the format guests look at longest
- Switch ornaments and the background on or off per format until each one reads cleanly
- Download all formats as print-ready PDFs and send them to your printer
- Scan the printed proofs with a phone before committing to a full run
Plans
Print designs are available on Pro and Enterprise. Free accounts can still create and download a QR code from the generator, they just do not get the branded print layouts. Pro is $8.99 a month and free for the first 60 days, so a venue can design and print a full set of table tents before paying anything. Pricing is at /pricing.
Running more than one venue changes the picture slightly, because each venue has its own code and its own look. That setup is covered in One QR in the Lobby, One per Table (/blog/hotel-lobby-qr-directory-named-qr-codes).
