How To Make Your Own Playing Cards

This is a comprehensive course in how to make your own playing cards which are almost indistinguishable from store bought cards. It covers everything starting from the design, print, cut, coating and other relevant issues.

Introduction

• How it all started
• The goal
• Other methods
• Overview of the Process
• Build your own little card making business

  Designing Cards

• Free Online Card Design Tool
• Other ways to design your cards
• Resources

  Printing Cards

• The Structure of a Playing Card
• Buying Playing Card Cardboard
• Printing
• Alignment
• Color Matching

  Coating Cards

• Coating not always necessary
• Failed attempts
• The real solution
• UV coating

  Cutting Cards

• Box Cutter and Straight Edge
• Paper Cutter
• Die Cutter
• Lybrary.com KardKutter
• Faro Shuffling
• Card Boxes

  Conclusion

• The cost of making cards
• Intellectual Property Rights

1st edition 2015, 32 pages.
word count: 12179 which is equivalent to 48 standard pages of text