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title: "Custom Badge Sizes and Formats"
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# Custom Badge Sizes and Formats

> [!TIP]
> 🏔️ Summit 2026 Feature
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> Print event badges using the badge size, stock, and printer format that fit your event.

Custom badge sizes and formats expand [badge printing](/v1/docs/badge-printing) beyond the default badge stock. When configuring a badge, you can either select one of the predefined sizes and formats, or you can enter custom badge dimensions. This makes it possible to design badges for different label stock, paper sizes, and compatible printers.

![](https://cdn.us.document360.io/cd8ea7a6-07f3-4846-a554-627ac016d3e3/Images/Documentation/Custom badge sizes.png)

Custom badge sizes and formats lets you:

**Admissions 🪪**

Print smaller adhesive badges for an open house while keeping the registrant name, QR code, and program interest visible.

**Student Success 🎓**

Use a custom badge format for orientation, advising fairs, or resource events where attendees need visible role or cohort information.

**Advancement 🤝**

Create donor event badges sized for premium badge stock, including table assignment, giving society, or reunion year merge fields.

## Setting a custom badge size

1. Open the event or event template that will use the badge.
2. Select **Edit Form**.
3. Select **Edit Mobile Pass**.
4. Select the **Badge** tab.
5. Select one of the predefined badge sizes and formats, or select **Custom** and enter a custom width and height.
6. Use the guide marks in the badge preview to align text, merge fields, QR codes, and design elements within the selected dimensions.
7. Select **Save**.

![](https://cdn.us.document360.io/cd8ea7a6-07f3-4846-a554-627ac016d3e3/Images/Documentation/Orientation badge with custom 4x11 size.png)

📖 [Designing an badge or mobile pass](/v1/docs/event-mobile-passes-badges)

## Printing with compatible hardware

1. Prepare the Windows laptop, desktop, or tablet that will run the Slate Desktop badge printing app.
2. Install the Windows printer drivers for the printer and stock you plan to use.
3. Connect the barcode scanner and printer to the Windows device.
4. Launch the scanner from the event management page.
5. Select the printer in the Slate Scan App.
6. Run a test scan and print before the event.

Custom badge sizes can be used with printers that have compatible Windows drivers. Test the badge design, paper stock, and printer settings before using the setup at a live check-in desk.

📖 [Our hardware recommendations](/v1/docs/badge-printing#step-1-purchasing-the-required-hardware)