Trading Cards

Quidam · Post by **Quidam** » Wed Mar 10, 2004 2:14 pm

I'd like Prometheatrics to have trading cards this year- I know it's been done before by others and I'd love to display the sincerest form of flattery. Any wisdom from Those Who Went Before? Best/cheapest place to have it done? Design successes/lessons?

Gotta catch 'em all!

III · Post by **III** » Wed Mar 10, 2004 4:32 pm

>>Any wisdom from Those Who Went Before?

it's neither cheap nor easy. the gigsville trading cards tended to run around $70/person (this is pretty independent of volume, since the primary cost is in set up), and that's with enough people to fill a full printing sheet. (or two, for some years). yes, that means it's a $5,000 project (or twice that, for the two sheet years).

you can also print em yourself on cardstock with a nice printer, and cut em by hand. they come out okay this way (i think i paid $30-40 for my san diego cards) but end up with a much lower volume, and the quality is not quite as nice.

with both of those, also expect to put in 5-10 hours of decent labor per card, both for initial image development, and then color adjustment and separations. expect that to cost extra if you don't have someone in your group who is already pretty well versed in that.
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