Print guide

Everything you need to get dolls and clothes that line up, stand up and survive play.

1. Printer settings

• Scale: choose 100%, Actual size or No scaling. Do not choose “Fit to page” or “Shrink oversized pages”.
• Paper size: download the PDF that matches your paper — US Letter (8.5 × 11 in) or A4 (210 × 297 mm). Both contain identical, full-size pieces.
• Check the scale: every sheet has a black bar labeled “1 inch” and one labeled “25 mm”. Measure one with a ruler. If it is shorter, your printer scaled the page.
• Margins: all artwork stays at least 0.5 in (12.7 mm) from the paper edge, so borderless printing is never needed.

2. Paper

• Dolls and stands: white cardstock, 65–110 lb cover (176–300 gsm). Lighter paper works but the doll will bend.
• Clothes: regular 20–24 lb (75–90 gsm) printer paper folds best; light cardstock also works.
• Coloring editions: use the black-and-white PDFs and color before cutting.

3. What the lines mean

• Solid gray line: cut here.
• Dashed line: fold the white tab back behind the doll.
• Short red line: a slit — cut along it with scissors or a craft knife (adults only for knives).

4. The slot-together stand

Each doll has a grass tab under its feet with a 7 mm slit cut up from the bottom edge. The separate stand base (64 × 14 mm) has a matching slit cut down from the top. Slide the slits together at a right angle and the doll stands on its own. On thin paper, glue the base to a second layer of cardstock first.

5. Fold-back tabs

Put the outfit on the doll and fold the tabs back so they wrap around the doll’s edge. Tabs are always placed where the doll has a real paper edge (sides of the waist, outer arms, outer legs), so they have something to hold. Hats have adjustable tabs: fold them where they meet the doll’s hair, anywhere between the two dashed guides.

6. Body rigs: girls, boys and pets

There are three measured bodies. PDW Body V1 is for girl dolls, PDW Boy V1 is for boy dolls (broader shoulders, straighter waist, arms set wider) and PDW Pet V1 is for sitting puppies, kittens and bunnies. Every outfit is drawn for exactly one of them, so girl, boy and pet clothes are not interchangeable. Boy dolls wear a sleeveless base top so tees and jackets cover it completely.

Each human rig is 159 mm (6.3 in) from the top of the hair to the soles, 173 mm including the stand tab, with a 2 mm white cutting border. Clothes are drawn on the same coordinates, so an outfit printed at 100% lines up with every doll on its rig. Before a file is listed, a program checks every outfit against every doll or pet on its rig: required areas are covered, the face stays clear, and every fold line lands on the doll’s paper edge with at least 4 mm of tab left to wrap behind. Rig version 1.0.0.

7. Safety

Scissors, craft knives and small paper parts need adult help and supervision. Paper pieces are not suitable for children under 3.