I came here to say this. Generate a document with the printing card dimensions lined out then use that document as your template by cutting out the hole.

Hello hello hello, I was thinking on making a card game and wanted to ask if you had any success in your process? What cards you bought? How did you design the cards? Etc

I used computers to design everything. I think this is best for a small quantity. Once could do an entire deck I suppose, but it would be a very dedicated work.

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Sorry, I am new to this. Well I think you can print the rectangle and then use that to trace your cut out. It is best to use trial and error with regular paper until the print is perfect. Then use the actual cards.

It works nearly perfectly. And I have not tried any recent printers.

Yes they will spread well for the Ascanio or at least good enough.

I think it does something but not enough.

The Paper (card face or back) must be really free of previous coating for ink to stay properly. From there, the printer settings must be compared for each individual case. It sometimes means the ink is too much. One can wipe it clean sometimes after a print but that is also no fun.

Yes. The finish can be more or less depending on what you want. Many thin coats can lead you to various levels of finish from matte to gloss.

You set the art up in the document and print and adjust until you get it. Best case is you master the program and printer, such that you force the art, the printer and the program into a mathematical relationship that works. It is not easy. Printing on regular paper and holding the result up to the Template in bright light with eagle eyes and then tweaking it (print again, hold it up again) until everything lines up perfectly is a valid approach.

I do not know how to do the air cushion finish!

Basically this is true; there is nobody. I bought PlainCards (or something like that) a few years ago, and they were pretty good but they have problems too. They recently sent me a going out of business sale offer. It was a template that you can break out of the sheet due to perforations. It was not perfect. The only real way to get cards that perform at the high level that we need, other than this that I show here, is to pay a large amount to Bicycle or other major playing card companies. Lybrary.com has a tutorial on this too. They actually bought a truck load of the real playing card paper! Then they do something like what I am doing here.

Yes, you can sell custom printed playing cards for performing card magic artists, magicians and mentalists.

That plan will not work because the printer ink is the problem. It will smear.

@@SteffanSoule what about a laser printer?

​@@lastdayseth If the finish is removed first, other printers can be tried.

Gotta make sure it's laserjet, not inkjet. Laserjet loads and quickly dries the ink on its own, while inkjet just throws the ink on and lets it dry, iirc.

I use INKJET and have had trouble with laserjet! One has to work with ink levels, yes! It is not easy. If there is any finish on the cards, the ink will smear. If you use basic printing and not BEST, the ink delivers the right amount for my printers.

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Making a template is simple: get 100 lb paper, use your drawing program to create and print a rectangle the same size as a playing card. Save that drawing file for later use. Then lay a piece of double-sided removable tape right near the top of that rectangle image you just printed, making sure the tape is inside the rectangle. That is now your template! Then, place and fit your "treated" card onto that rectangle. Then insert it into your printer's hopper so that the taped portion represents the top of the image. Then, using your drawing program, paste your desired image onto that rectangle. Then temporarily delete or somehow hide (using your drawing program's layers capability) the rectangle so that it itself doesn't print. Then print! That one piece of double-sided removable tape holding the top of the card is sufficient to hold it as it runs through your ink-jet printer. I use this method all the time and works great. If you're ambitious, you can create and print maybe 4 or more rectangles, save the drawing file you used to create them, and now you have a simple yet effective template for simultaneously printed multiple cards, as many as will fit on a piece of paper. Good luck!

I did not post it recently and I may have lost the template, but...: If you print the rectangle on the actual printer and make a template by trial and error, you will actually have better results in the long run.

Yes. Still works in 2019✨

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