Printing QR Codes for One-off Teams
When using one-off teams (login without registration), players need to be given physical or digital access cards. QEng provides a built-in print utility to automatically layout cards with QR codes ready for printing on standard A4 paper (or others).
How to Set Up and Print Cards
1. Open the Print Setup Page
- Go to your game dashboard (author section).
- In the team management menu, select “Print team cards” (or visit the URL
/game_admin/teams_print_setup.php?gid=GAME_ID).
2. Configure Grid Layout and Elements
On the print configuration page, you can customize the layout using the form fields:
- Grid Settings: choose the number of columns and rows of cards on a single sheet, and choose the paper format (A4, A5, etc.).
- Card Elements:
- Show team name — prints the team name on the card (useful if you pre-assigned names).
- Show link — displays a short text URL below the QR code in case the player's scanner fails.
- Show language — displays the selected interface language.
- Team Filtering: configure printing for a subset of teams (e.g. skip the first N teams using the
skipfield or limit cards using thelimitfield). - Margins and Sizing: adjust page margins, gaps between cards, internal padding, and font sizes.
3. Start Printing
- After setting up the parameters, click “Print” (or “Preview”).
- The engine will format the printable page.
Printing Tips:
- In your browser print dialog (Ctrl+P), make sure to disable headers and footers (which print the page address, date, etc.) so they do not overlap with the cards.
- Set the scale to 100% (or “Fit to page”).
- If the cards spill over to an extra page, slightly decrease margins or gaps in the setup form.