How to use Klaser
Everything you can do with your printable collection — creating and editing cards, printing 9-up sheets, managing topics, and keeping a safe backup. Jump to any section, or read straight through.
01 · Getting started
What can you do with Klaser?
Klaser turns the things you love — films, series, books, comics, board games, video games and music — into printable trading cards at standard 63 × 88 mm size, nine to an A4 sheet. Everything lives in your browser; there are no accounts. Start from New card, or open My Cards and choose Load demo deck to explore with sample data.
02 · Creating cards
To create a card, you need only a title.
Pick a topic first — it sets the card's colour accent, the available stat fields and which data source can auto-fill it. Type a title and fetch from the matching source (OMDb for film & TV, Open Library or Hardcover for books, Comic Vine, BoardGameGeek, RAWG or IGDB for games, Discogs for music), or fill every field by hand. A live 238 × 333 preview updates as you type, so the card on screen is exactly what prints.
"Save & add another" copies your layout
This button saves the current card and immediately opens a fresh blank one — but it carries over the slot layout, subtitle setup, pennant and card-back. Only the data is empty. It's the fast way to enter a whole series or season without re-configuring the card each time.
The BGG version picker finds the right edition
When you search BoardGameGeek by title, a game can have many editions (different languages, publishers, years). Klaser shows you a version picker so you can choose the exact edition you own before fetching its data. Pick the one that matches your box — the cover art and stats come from that version.
03 · The card editor
Navigating between cards
Opening a card from My Cards gives you the same editor as creating — every field, the live preview, slots, subtitle, pennant and back. What changes is that the editor remembers the exact list you came from, in its current filter and sort order.
VCR navigation — move through a batch without going back
Four controls step through your filtered list: Prev and Next jump without saving, while Save & previous and Save & next commit your changes and move on in a single tap. If you press plain Prev/Next with unsaved edits, Klaser asks before discarding them.
04 · My Cards
Bulk actions (edit, delete, copy settings)
Switch between grid and list views, filter by topic with the pills, search titles live, and sort by recently added, A–Z, or print history. Each card has quick Edit and Delete actions. Export the whole collection to JSON, or import from a Klaser file, BGG, Discogs or Steam.
Select mode adds a checkbox to every card and a bulk-actions bar: toggle printed status, send to print, move to a topic, bulk delete, or copy settings across cards.
"Copy settings to cards" standardises a whole set
Select the cards you want to update, choose Copy settings to cards, then pick a template card from the same topic and tick which parts to copy — Slots, Subtitle, Pennant, Back. Each card keeps its own data; only the layout changes. Use it to retro-fit a new layout onto cards you made earlier.
Pair it with "Save & add another": batch-create with a consistent layout, then copy settings later if you change your mind.
Beyond the Klaser-file import, you can pull whole lists straight from the services you already use: a BoardGameGeek collection or username, a Geek Preview list, a Discogs record collection, or your Steam library. Klaser fetches the titles, matches each to its topic and pulls the cover art and stats automatically.
Bulk import needs a template card first
Importing from BGG, Geek Preview, Discogs or Steam doesn't guess a layout — it copies the one you already designed. Make one card in the right topic exactly how you want the set to look (slots, subtitle, pennant, back), then start the import and pick it as the template. Every imported title is built on that layout, with its own fetched data dropped into the slots. No template in that topic yet? Klaser asks you to create one before it can import.
Tip: keep one tidy "master" card per topic just for importing — you can always tweak individual cards afterwards, or use Copy settings to cards to re-standardise them later.
05 · Print & poster
Printing cards
The print sheet lays your cards out 3 × 3 on A4 at true 63 × 88 mm, with registration marks at every corner for clean cuts. Set a number of copies per card, sort the order, hide cards already printed, and mark a card as printed with the star — a Printed tag then shows on My Cards. Poster mode prints a single large poster instead of the card grid.
The printer-friendly filter is about ink, not looks
It changes only how the sheet prints, to suit your printer and paper — not the cards themselves. Original is full colour for home inkjets; Newspaper is high-contrast black & white that uses the least ink; Sepia is a softer warm monochrome for drafts; Gołąb is tuned for that specific paper stock.
06 · Topics & collections
Built-in and custom topics
Movies, Series, Books, Comics, Tabletop, Video games and Music each come with the stat fields that suit them. Reorder topics by dragging, and open any one to manage it.
You can rename, recolour and hide built-in topics
Each built-in topic can be renamed (the new name shows on the card footer), recoloured, given a default card back, and have its data sources toggled. Hiding a topic with the eye removes it from the picker and filters but keeps every card safe in storage — nothing is deleted. Reset any topic to its factory defaults at any time.
Custom topics add free-text slots with an auto-assigned colour. Deleting one is the only destructive step here — Klaser warns you first.
07 · Backup & export
Backing up your collections
Klaser runs entirely in your browser with no accounts, so your backup is simply a file you keep yourself. From My Cards, Export downloads your whole collection as one JSON file — every card, with its poster images embedded. To move to another browser or device, or to restore after clearing your data, use Import and choose that file. Export regularly; it's the only copy.
08 · Settings
Editing topics and card backs
Settings collects the things that shape every card. Topics manages the built-ins and your custom topics; Card backs sets the global default back — per-topic and per-card backs inherit from it unless you override them.
09 · About & changelog
Changelog
Reachable from the footer, About shows the app version and a short description, and the Changelog lists user-facing release notes, newest first.
10 · Tips & tricks