u/DrewStarcraft

Sleeve or no sleeve?

Does anyone print proxies with the intent on not sleeving them and just riffle shuffling like a normal desk of cards?

I was able to get good results with double sided printing so the card backs being misaligned isn’t a worry. I currently am using koala double sided glossy 160gsm and laminating with 3mil glossy laminate. Cards look fantastic and have a decent feel/snap but I had a thought, I could use thicker photo paper like Koalas 250gsm double sided glossy, still laminate with 3mil and then just not sleeve them.

Goal is to have the cards be more sturdy and snappy outside of sleeves. Obviously the 250gsm with 3mil laminate would be thicker than normal cards so if I sleeve them, the stack would be too big. But if I don’t sleeve them, the thickness shouldn’t matter much.

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u/DrewStarcraft — 13 hours ago

hello fellow proxy makers. I just printed my first commander deck and it came out absolutely perfect. even printed thr card backs and they were 99% aligned which is good enough for me.

anyways I had some questions about tokens. since we can just print whatever we want, do you guys print a bunch of random tokens and then pick out what you need for a deck, or potentially just cut and laminate a blank page and use dry erase markers?

I would assume mostly everyone just prints the tokens they would need for each deck and keep them with that deck but I was thinking about printing off like 50 of all sorts of ones and having them always ready if that makes sense.

just trying to figure out what others do.

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u/DrewStarcraft — 9 days ago