"Making card decks" Topic

Any ideas the best way to make a reasonable deck. Just printing onto card has the problems hard to shuffle, and the ink runs. The actual lay out/cutting not a problem (use word Lables, for instance so you can define the borders/sizes to allow easy guillotining- mine has measurements marked in so I can easily make uniform cuts)

If you use a laser printer the ink won't run.

A buddy of mine bought blank playing type cards which are usually used to make flash cards. Then I added the art to them with prismacolor pens and oversprayed with Krylon matt finish.

A few companies can make you custom pro playing cards with anything on them you want. Try looking at Guild of Blades. Hope I got that right.

The card sleeves for CCGs are good.

I did a deck of the Adventure cards for Savage worlds (all sorts of fun for players), printed them out front and back on sticky lable paper, stuck them down on manilla folders and cut them out and put them in the sleeves.

In that form they are durable and shuffelable.

I've made small, chit size pieces and larger cards on Excel, printed them, lamanated, and cut them out.

Jeff Valent Studios offers short run, Print on Demand cards with a minimum order of only three decks. For example, you could print 3 decks of 36 cards each for only $2.80 USD a deck. hat's less than $10 USD for three decks, man!

link

Contact him and have him spec your job. If you don't need them in boxes and want just the cards, e-mail him. He will be happy to make a custom quote for you.

Mike

Oh, that's kind of cool! I will have to remember this.

If you are going to use them a lot, laminating works well. You can buy special sleeves just the right size for business cards that take any effort out of cutting them up.

I use the plaincards software and card blanks. Works really well

plaincards.com

I also use their card sealer to protect the inks, but I'm sure most any spray sealer will work just fine, such as Krylon as already mentioned

Los of options available.
Avery do perforated business card stock for home printers. Trading card sleeves work well to keep ink from smearing.
Look for online printers doing ACEOs, rates can be quite reasonable.

I get dollar store playing cards and place the laser-printed labels on and cover the labels with clear packing tape. Instead of labels you can just use paper – the tape will fix it down really well.

Thanks.

Altfritz- do you you want my address to deliver the colour laser printer to, or shall I get the shop to bill you :)

Unfortunately I'm in the UK. Never seen Krylon over here- any one know of a UK equivalent?

Ditto the PDF site- the UK ones I've seen either are hideously expensive for cards, or don't do them.

I've considered laminating- doesn't this make the cards bulky and liable to stick together when shuffling?

sorry that should be PoD site

Use photographic paper to print on? Nice stiff high quality paper to cut or guillotine, then laminate.

Huw – tried that with cards to replace Dirtside 2 chits- they do not shuffle propery as they tend to stick.

I print onto perforated sheets of business cards using a standard printer, and then laminate the cards in business card-sized pouches.

We do either the business cards or the card sleeve thing as above. Both work fine.

I have seen that moo.com will print you business cards with whatever you want on them. They offer a deal where you can get 50 cards, each with a diffrent picture if you like.
I have never used them though, so I can't vouch for them or their quality.

We use the thin sticky labels, print on them and stick them onto playing cards … cheap and easy.

I buy 110lb card stock (not the typical 60lb card stock) and use a color laser printer directly onto the card stock. Then cut the cards apart using a rotary trimmer. If I want to be fancy I will round off the corners using a photo corner rounder – which you can find among scrap-booking supplies. This makes a pretty good card deck that can even be shuffled, requires no stickers and does not to be sleeved either.