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Hi everyone!
I'm new here 
I stumbled on this site because of a google search on DIYS dominion card making.
I see a lot of great custom made cards here.
How do you propose to print them? What paper and more importantly, what size & other printing settings?
Thx!!
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J
United States
San Diego
California
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Moved to the DIY forum
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Sturv Tafvherd
United States
North Carolina
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kaytodad wrote: Hi everyone! I'm new here
Welcome!
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I stumbled on this site because of a google search on DIYS dominion card making.
I see a lot of great custom made cards here.
How do you propose to print them? What paper and more importantly, what size & other printing settings?
Thx!!
Most people will probably just print them out on normal paper; some might even choose to lower the color saturation so that it uses up less ink... the point being that they don't need to produce a real card. They'll just cut the printouts into the appropriate size/shape to fit into a card sleeve, and reinforce that with a regular card.
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M.L. Russell
United States
Michigan
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We have previously used paper with a playing card placed behind it in a plastic card sleeve. Make sure the paper is heavy enough weight so that the playing card does not 'bleed' through. We now use card stock instead of paper. We print cards for my husband's games, so from experience, watch the saturation level. It doesn't take much to empty a full cartridge, even with a minimally designed card, when you're printing a complete deck of cards. Paper cutters are nice for straight lines, scissors for rounded edges. Craft scissors or a corner rounding tool are nice, but only if you're expecting to be printing a lot of cards.
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Andrew Roy
United Kingdom
Bath
GB
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Is this legal? I'm serious.
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M.L. Russell
United States
Michigan
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I believe the cards in question are fanmade custom Dominion cards.
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Christopher Young
United States
Tenstrike
Minnesota
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If you wanted to use this method to print the 'official' cards, you could. But, frankly, after sleeves, ink, paper, backing cards, and time, you'd spend more than if you simply went out and bought the game. Printing in these kinds of quantities takes a very heavy toll on printer ink. If you lower the quality to the absolute minimum, you might possibly save a dollar or two (maaaybe), but the process takes hours upon hours - and you've got a minimum-quality product when you're done.
To actually answer your question, it's legal to design your own cards, and it's legal for other people to print them - as long as no money changes hands, they don't violate artist copyright, and they don't exactly copy existing for-profit cards. Your concern (and it's a valid one) is that this could be used to steal existing Dominon products by replicating existing cards. That would be illegal, and the best defense against it is that it's not any cheaper than purchasing a legal copy, and is significantly harder to boot.
I am neither a lawyer nor your lawyer, and this information is to the best of my knowledge.
A side note: the practice is not completely without risk - I could imagine a civil suit where a company alleges that distributing fanmade components lowers the perceived quality of their brand - or a similar lawsuit that doesn't tackle the issue exactly head-on. To the best of my knowledge, however, Rio Grande has never attempted such a suit and shows no sign of doing so in the future. In fact, it's possible to buy blank cards from them just for the purpose of making your own designs; this, to me, is a strong indication that they support the practice of interacting with their game design in a personal way.
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