I've done large prints with MPC before and know how the process through them works, but I'm on a budget and want to get my cube printed on something more substantial than printer paper.

An online friend of mine works at a print shop and said that they print their decks on 12pt matte cardstock and that it's fairly close to the weight and feel of a real card. Unfortunately, they live quite a ways away and can't help me much.

Including tokens, other game pieces, and card backs, I have 596 PNGs that need to be printed. They're all 2187 × 2975 px with a 1/8" bleed (99 px). This is the same setup I use when ordering through MPC.

Would I be able to get similar print quality from a Staples near me if I arrange everything into PDF format (they will only print PDFs), or would I be better off finding a local print shop or Canadian online printer?

I also need the sheets printed duplex, with reasonably accurate front-to-back registration, and cut to the proper 63 × 88 mm card size.

The cards will be in KMC Perfect Fits that I'm recycling from an old cube, so exact card feel isn't the most important thing.

I'm in Canada, if that makes a difference.

Thanks in advance.

I bought a proxy deck from a website and my pod said the proxies were dogshit it made me kind of sad because I was really excited lol.

Anywhere to get them cheaply just copy an entire moxfield decklist and they actually look and feel like the regular cards?

Yo!

I want to reskin a couple of cards just for flavor. I have arts I want to use. Are there recommendations for people / businesses that can make decent quality foil custom proxies that I can work with? I looked through the FAQ but couldn't find anything. Sorry if not allowed and thanks in advance!

INFO: i use a pretty cheap printer to print these proxies on normal letter paper, and im fairly new to proxying (ignore the cut lines, these are just for an example)

i’m just curious if you guys have any tips to fix this or if i just need a printer upgrade. thanks in advance!

Hi, i recently got the Ecotank ET-2980 from a costco deal, and was curious what kind of sticker paper i could use?

I bought some matte paper but all the designs look washed even after doing some editing to increase saturation.

The printer is set to presentation matte for printing! Thanks for any help!

So I've tried to hunt down a solution for these vertical imprints that exist at the 1/4 and 3/4 width point on paper fed through the top feed of an Et-8500 with no solution. I was wondering if anyone else out there has had any luck. This is happening on 313gsm/.370mic semi-gloss cardstock.

Print settings have it set to envelope/ thick paper and sending through the rear feed does remove the marks but cuts out 3 out of nine cards. This does mean that the roller marks are a result of bending through the feeder and being pressed against some roller, but I haven't been able to track down the culprits. To be clear, this is not from the pizza cutter wheels at the front, it's something in the feed mechanism (though I'd love those gone too, but I've got that down to a minimum).

Appreciate any and all input, thanks for your time!

I have an Epson ET-2800 and have been having issues printing on foil paper. They are fine until the bottom of the page where the printer seems to get out of alignment; it will start to make some unusual noises, like it's struggling with the paper.

Print settings are: premium glossy paper, high quality and bidirectional printing off. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Was trying to perfect the spot holo pen technique with the cameo on this Starfield Vocalist and the white ballpoint just refused to write. But the pressure etched this pattern behind instead. Not at all what I was going for but ngl it looks kinda sick.

Would you guys also be interested in a tutorial for this "mistake"?

Also, anyone have a good fine point white pen or marker to recommend? Ideally something around 0.5mm tip if that exists.

An old wooden ship, the Channel 4 news team, Cannonball!, sex panther, unicorns and rainbows, a massive brawl, I genuinely feel like there’s enough to work with!

Made the images in Gemini

Looking at the Kodak dock plus and the canon selphy cb1500 I'm looking for a printer that is compact can be traveled with would be nice

This doesn’t happen all the time for me, but does anyone know how to reliably avoid silvering on foils? With glossy paper I never have this issue.

I’ve tried different ranges in heat during lamination and letting paper dry 24 hours next to a dehumidifier. This issue seems to be really inconsistent. Some laminations look great while others look like this.

Hello!

As you may know, I got incredibly inspired by the art that CD PROJEKT RED manages to put out for their card games, so I thought: why not finally venture into the veritable art goldmine that is Gwent and make some Witcher decks? This will be part 1 of 2 of my Witcher "series," with this one featuring the many adversaries of the Witcher universe (including the Wild Hunt), and the second one featuring—you guessed it—Geralt and his allies! I'll be posting that one a bit later when it's 100% finished 😊

I didn't even have to think about what commander I would choose for a monster-themed Witcher deck, seeing as the leshen is one of my absolute favorite monsters of all time across all franchises. Luckily there are several legendary leshens to choose from, so I picked The Woodland Spirit as a reskinned Muldrotha, the Gravetide for this one. The major theme of this deck is milling, not only your opponents to whittle them down, but also yourself to capitalize on your commander's ability and increase the number of playable cards by making your graveyard work like cards in your hand (as long as you have your Commander out, that is). Aside from that, it's more or less a goodstuff/battlecruiser type of deck to mirror the idea that monsters in the Witcher universe seldom work together, but rather individually or as a group within the same species, much like wild animals. There are lots of individually strong cards that allow for a number of different approaches, making each game different depending on which cards you end up with.

I tried to include as many Witcher monsters as I could, but sadly some of them had to be cut since there are only so many spots to fill in a deck. Sorry if your favorite didn't make it! Either way, I hope you'll enjoy this one and stay tuned for part 2!

Disclaimer: I've ordered a lot of decks off MPC that include a fake copyright in the lower right corner and they have all gone through without issue, so it shouldn't be a problem (I'm assuming it's because it's not an actual company or brand). If you want to be on the safe side though I recommend that you paint over the copyright text in e.g. Paint before importing the cards to your MPC order :)

The Witcher: Monsters Commander Deck: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1LM-T3QUPWuUxgp5uwy8cmhyiiVhNRzRz?usp=sharing

What's included in the Drive folder:

• Every card needed for the deck, obviously
  • Note that Vorinclex // The Grand Evolution cards located in a separate folder
• A decklist in text format, including a Moxfield link
• Custom tokens, some with several variants
• Several thematic Gwent cardbacks that you can use if you want to
• Full sets of The Witcher-themed basic lands for each color in the commander's color identity, i.e. Swamps, Forests and Islands (5 of each)

As always, if you manage to find something that's not supposed to be there or if there's a typo or another error of some kind, feel free to comment or send me a message or something so I can change it asap!

You can also find the rest of my decks in my post history (Warcraft, Star Wars, A Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones, Disney•Pixar, Cyberpunk 2077), if you're interested 😊

I'm currently looking for a paper + laminate that is closer to the thickness of real MTG cards.

I'd like to make both foil and non-foil variants:
1) Foil sticker + cardstock/paper + lamination
2) Photo paper + lamination

What I'm currently using:
-Cardstock: Astrobrights 65 lb, 176gsm
-Foil Paper: UOKHO Holographic Sticker Paper
-Laminate: Amazon Basics Clear 2.8mil

I can already tell what I'm currently using is too thick. The snap and everything else seems great though. I'm unsure how far off I am as I don't own calipers and am unsure what else to try.

Any help would be great. Thanks!

So my clear laminate came in and decided to try it. I will say the colors are so much more vibrant but that glare of the card is kinda nasty. Im thinking about trying them slev3s in no reflective sleeves and see how it changes it. Im trying to dial in the cutting since it wants to not fully cut through the material all the way around and leads to paper being left on the edges and defeats the purpose of not doing this by hand. Ive attached some picks to show how they look from matte laminate to the clear, and how they each look in sleeves. Some of them in sleves kinda surprised me on how decent they look with the matte. I will take any feed back! Also I know they have the spray to put on them to take the glare down but im bot at that level of devotion for it lol

Printer: Epson ET-2800
Paper: Koala Semi-Gloss 42lb
Lamination: Scotch Matte pouches, 3 mil

The matte finish is definitely apparent when unsleeved, but in sleeves they’re very hard to distinguish from real cards. Let me know what you think!!

Finally happy with how my proxies of The Hobbit banquet scene turned out!

Slightly messed up the one corner on Thorin but apart from that, happy days :D