Print Your Cards at Home on Thick Card Stock
( Related – Ever thought about making a board game? Get the answers to many questions new board game designers have here.)Ģ. Though I do recommend using a local printer if you only want to print out a few pages of cards. Something my friend sometimes has to do in a bind at a convention. So I probably only got about 125 pages per cartridge.īut that is still way better than having to print them at a local print shop like Office Depot. However, my cards were very detailed (see image for this post) and took a lot more ink to print. The box of ink that I buy says it can print about 165 pages of color colored cards. I don’t know too much about which printers are the most cost efficient but this one seemed pretty good. I have personally used the HP InkJet 5740 Printer for almost all of my card printing. Get a Printer – I Use an InkJet when Printing My Cards at Home Mainly because I make so many balance changes to my games that I am constantly printing and cutting out the new cards. Though once you are 95% done with balancing your game, I would recommend getting it professionally printed from one of these companies. Here is a way that Nick Hayes has shared with the community that is supposed to be even more professional than my method.īut I still prefer my method in general for the card game prototypes I make. This is the method I have found to be most efficient while still looking and feeling professional.Īnd just so you know. While there are many other methods out there to print your own playing cards. My method also works well for printing other people’s Print & Play games to playtest. I found better tools to use to print out my own card games.
Diy printpress notecards trial#
I know that is how I started.īut as I went through years and years of trial and error. There are a lot of creative people out there that started making card games with notecards and a pen. But I want to show you the way I like best. I have seen and tried many different ways to print card games at home.
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