Reddit mentions: The best cover stock paper

Sorry I'm late, others have given you great ways to have a good deck produced, they can be a little bit expensive, if you goal was to simply print one deck for a card game.


If you really just want to print one deck for a drinking game, but have it on something more resembling a deck of real cards, you can simply print the cards on a good quality linen finish cardstock:


https://www.amazon.com/Southworth-Cotton-Coverstock-inches-Z550CK/dp/B00125JBX4/


If you are just printing text, than a good quality home printer should produce an acceptable quality. If you want to throw a few more dollars at the project, take it to staples and have it printed on a high quality laser printer.


You'll have to cut the edges on a basic straight edge paper cutter, unless you have access to a die-cutter to perform the nice rounded corners you find on a deck of cards. They can be rather expensive and not worth-while for a project of this small scale.


One tip, I can offer is to use a whole punch to clean the corners. A 90 degree angle corner on a card is likely to get bent and deformed over time. Carefully running each corner into a hole punch will "die-cut" each corner into a inverted arc. Not as good as a real die-cut, but a nice little finish, if done accurately. It will take some experimenting to set up guides on the whole punch that you can align each corner into to get a symmetrical even punch each time. If you mess it up, the deck will not stack straight on the corners.

EDIT - Never mind, looks like corner rounders are now pretty cheap!

https://www.amazon.com/Aidox-Angle-Eater-Corner-Rounder/dp/B00161Q13C

hi i know i’m super late with this reply but i finally tested some paper for printing zine pages. i used this that i got from amazon. the settings i used were standard printing, grayscale, borderless printing, print quality high. it offers duplex printing but it’s manual and i was like “eh i’ll just flip it myself” because i was anxious about messing it up lol. i’m really happy with the way it all turned out

I think the easiest thing to do would be to upload your art to something like The Game Crafter and then order copies of the cards for yourself (you don't have to list things for sale publicly). That might be simpler/cheaper than buying, printing, and cutting everything out yourself.

Alternately, you probably wants something like this. You will not be able to use it with a basic home inkjet printer, though.

Thank you! This is the one I bought: https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B003U7KRK8/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o06_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

What you want is Chipboard (In Europe they call it greyboard) and then you want to print on Linen Paper, and paste it together using Super77. Grab a olaf blade, a cutting mat and a ruler and go to town on it!

Go buy a box of binder clips and some card stock paper. Print out pictures and use the binder clips as stands.