Government ID cards are issued as full-page PDFs, not as cards. Printed as they come, they waste most of a sheet and produce something too large to carry — so people fold them into a wallet until they tear.
Each cropper takes the official PDF or a scan for one card type — Aadhaar, PAN, voter ID, ration card, e-Shram, ABHA, Ayushman, UDID, MahaID or a learning licence — detects the front and back, and arranges them at standard card proportions on your chosen paper. Multiple copies fit on one sheet, which is the normal case at a CSC counter where a whole family needs copies at once. Output is rendered at 300 DPI so numbers and QR codes stay readable and the card survives lamination.
Print at 100% scale with "fit to page" disabled. This is the single most common mistake: rescaling reduces the effective DPI, which is what makes small print go soft and stops printed QR codes from scanning. Use 170-200 GSM paper if you intend to laminate — ordinary 80 GSM paper bubbles. And always start from the official PDF rather than a photo of a printed card, because every re-capture loses the fine detail that verification depends on.
Almost always because the sheet was printed with "fit to page" enabled. That rescales the image and reduces effective DPI. Print at 100% scale.
Yes. Choose the number of copies and they are arranged with proper gaps for cutting — useful when a family needs a copy each.
170-200 GSM for anything you plan to laminate or carry. Ordinary paper is fine for a temporary office copy but does not laminate well.
