By: Michelle | posted on: April 30, 2010 | in: Uncategorized
We often receive questions about the ideal sizes for QR Codes. Since we use them on our own printed materials, we also spent a decent amount of time testing what works. We recently ran a test of a QR Code business card at 6 different sizes. We used 4 different readers to see what kind of results we could come up with. The results are below:
Business Card QR Code Contains: Name, Company, Address, two telephone #’s, website, email address.
| Test |
Results |
Size: 2”x 2”  |
Had 100% success.
Tested with: i-nigma, Neo, Scan Life, Quick Mark |
Size: 1.5”x 1.5”  |
Had a lot of success – about 85%.
Tested with: i-nigma, Neo, Scan Life, Quick Mark |
Size: 1.25”x 1.25”  |
Had a small amount of success – about 50%.
Tested with: i-nigma, Neo, Scan Life, Quick Mark |
Size: 1”x 1” 
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Did not have success.
Tested with: i-nigma, Neo, Scan Life, Quick Mark |
Size: .75”x .75”  |
Did not have success.
Tested with: i-nigma, Neo, Scan Life, Quick Mark |
Size: .5”x .5”  |
Did not have success.
Tested with: i-nigma, Neo, Scan Life, Quick Mark |
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on May 1, 2010 at 7:12 pm
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on December 3, 2010 at 9:50 am
Steve said:
Michelle
How did you resize the codes? As pixel or vector images? We use a QR on our business card that is 15mm square with no problems.
on January 19, 2011 at 4:34 am
Donald said:
I would like to appreciate you for sharing such an impressive tests with us and I can say that these tests will be beneficial one for all of the people interested in QR Codes.
If you are looking for some standard sizes business cards and you wish to consult with some online printing company I would like to recommend you to visit Dow Printing at http://www.dowprinting.com for more details. They are online printing company offering online printing services since 12 years.
on February 8, 2011 at 12:53 pm
ScottS said:
What about success rates with codes with other infomation? Like a single, shortened URL?? Looking for newpaper print ads using this technology….
on July 1, 2011 at 6:09 am
cedric said:
Hello,
Did you use a smart phone with an Autofocus camera to produce these results ?
Thanks
on September 1, 2011 at 10:26 pm
ashraf awad said:
I tried to scan this( .5 inch) code with more mobile and more programs but there is no action
pls advice
Regards
on September 14, 2011 at 12:53 am
Tim said:
Made my own test (iphone4)
1″ x 1″: i-nigma worked for me very easily. Scan life took a while but it also got it in the end, Qrafter also did it, but was very slow and had to try many times.
3/4 inch : i-nigma worked, bit fiddly but not too much trouble, san life and Qrafter didn’t work
1/2 inch: all failed
on September 30, 2011 at 6:59 am
Jay said:
Hi,
I understand that the free i-nigma is only allowed to be used for personal use rather than commercial use, however does anyone know how to get a commercial license? I want to use it on some basic flyers and am wondering whether I need to get authorisation to do this. If anyone has any information for me, that would be great!
Thanks