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