I've been following the website www.cockeyed.com for years. The owner likes to do a lot of unusual projects and document them for his website. He also likes to come up with unique ebay auctions.
He has one now for custom cards for apples to apples that he made from scratch, not the a2a laser printer sheets. They look very well done, the auction is at http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6199897882
He works at a print shop and has access to the equipment. I contacted him to ask if he was interested in printing prototype and small run decks and he is.
He'll give me a quote once I answer "Do you know your final size of card, and how many different cards do you envision? Full color on both sides? Do you have computer files for them? .eps or .jpgs perhaps?"
I thought I'd get input from here before replying. How many people are interested (it should be practical to do 5 decks or less).
My answers wold be 2.5x3.5" cards, 50-100 different cards, color on both sides unless B&W on one side makes it a lot cheaper, and my files are in corel draw format. Is there anything else you'd like to see added?
Thanks for looking into this!
If you could, get prices for 2.25 x 3.5 as well as 2.5 x 3.5. Most of my games seem to be coming up as 2.25 x 3.5 since that is more in line with most of the games that are coming out these days (not including CCG, TCG, etc.).
I would agree that the industry standard seems to be PDF for file submission. If he could take that it would be great!