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Custom Card Game Printing

Take your card game to the next level with our printing guide
Luxury Playing Cards. Made In The UK. Professionally print your own personalised playing cards on our unmatched premium cardstock.

Create your own card game in just 6 steps!

  • Step 1 - Choose your card size from our fantastic range.
  • Step 2 - How many cards per pack?
  • Step 3 - Choose your material.
  • Step 4 - Choose your packaging.
  • Step 5 - Need Artwork help? Choose a Tier Level.
  • Step 6 - Order your FREE test pack!

Our Sales & Studio team work closely with our Production team so that we can recommend the best products for your pack. Contact us at info@ivory.co.uk or call us on 01354 656 430.

Step 1
Choose Your Size
  • Standard Playing Card Sizes:
  • Bridge (56mm x 87mm) - Standard playing card sizes in the UK & Europe.
  • Poker (63mm x 88mm) - Standard playing card sizes in the USA.
  • Sizes perfect for Flashcards / Information style cards:
  • A7 (74mm x 105mm)
  • Education (78mm x 108mm)
  • Display (110mm x 155mm)
  • Our Tarot Sizes:
  • Tarot (70mm x 120mm)
  • Wide Tarot (85mm x 120mm)
  • Large Tarot (89mm x 127mm)
  • Tall Tarot (89mm x 146mm)
  • Other Game Card Sizes:
  • Square 50 (50mm x 50mm)
  • Patience (42mm x 63mm)
  • Baby Bridge (50mm x 75mm)
  • Square 76 (76mm x 76mm)
  • Skat (59mm x 91mm)
  • Trumps (62mm x 100mm)
  • Square 100 (100mm x 100mm)
  • A5 (148mm x 210mm)
  • A4 (210mm x 297mm)
  • SRA3 (320mm x 450mm)
Step 2
Cards Per Pack
watermelon designed cards, stacked in different cards per pack
  • Standard For Playing Cards:
  • 54 - 56 cards per pack
  • Standard For Trumps:
  • 36 - 40 cards per pack
  • Standard For Tarot & Oracle Packs:
  • 22 - 56 - 78 cards per pack

Looking for a different amount? No problem! Fill out our ‘Other’ option for cards per pack when requesting a quote.

Step 3
Materials
310gsm Heretic
Our playing card material is made up of 2 pieces of board that is laminated together using an opaque glue. This ensures that the board is more durable & has no possibility of show through. This material is great for Poker & Bridge style card games.
310gsm Sureslip
A step up from our 310gsm Heretic. Sureslip is a textured version that is perfect for magicians or magic tricks. It is also an amazing upgrade to make your pack stand out and appeal more to customers who love texture.
300gsm Zanta
A thicker card stock that is great for larger sized cards! If you're looking for a full-bleed design (no borders), then we highly recommend this one. The perfect material for sizes larger than Square 100.
350gsm Zanta
A thicker card stock that is great for larger sized cards and Tarot & Oracle cards! This is a stiff card stock that is most commonly used for bordered card designs.
400gsm Calder Satin
Our newest card material! Perfect for larger cards where you're looking for a more premium quality. A great material for full bleed designs since it has a reduced chance of chipping.
270um Aramac 100% Plastic
Our Aramac material is made from 100% plastic and is great for writing on with a whiteboard pen. A very durable and flexible material, great if your pack is going to be handled on a very regular basis. Please note that this material is not opaque and that it comes with restrictions at the artwork stage of a plain white border around your artwork. This ensures that the plastic sticks well and doesn't chip.

Not sure what material to choose? No problem! Contact Us at info@ivory.co.uk for a sample kit.

Step 4
Packaging
different packaging examples laid out, including rigid boxes (smooth & textured), tuck boxes with matte, gloss or soft touch lamination, cello-wrapping, metallic gold and silver examples, gold and silver foiled tuck boxes
  • Tuck Boxes
  • These come with the option of 3 different laminates (Gloss & Matte & Soft Touch). They are completely personalised so that you can show off your cards and design them accordingly.
  • Double Tuck Boxes
  • A great option if you're looking to reduce postage costs! These are the same as our Personalsied Tuck Boxes, but they allow room for 2 packs side-by-side.
  • Rigid Boxes
  • These come with the option of 2 different materials (Smooth & Textured), as standard they are all Matte laminated as a protective coat. They are completely personalised so that you can show off your cards and design them accordingly. MOQ is 50 packs.
  • Plain White Tuck Boxes
  • Our economical option to personalised tuck boxes. They are unpersonalised and uncoated as standard.
  • Clear Plastic Boxes
  • Only available in Poker, Bridge, Skat & Trump card size. The card requirements are:
    Poker - 56 cards
    Bridge - 36 or 56 cards
    Skat - 36 cards
    Trumps - 36 cards
  • Paper Banding
  • A 30mm recycled paper mix that is wrapped around the center of the cards to hold them. There is no extra charge for this option.
  • Cello Wrapping
  • A clear film that wrapped around the whole deck, comes with a gold tear strip as standard. Available in Poker & Bridge size as standard, other sizes available with a bespoke set-up cost. MOQ is 50 packs on Bespoke set-up.
Step 5
Artwork Tier Levels

Print-Ready PDFs

We perform print-ready checks on your artwork.

What's Included:

  • Your artwork is already fitted according to our templates.
  • No artwork adjustments needed from our Studio.
  • Digital proofs will be sent for approval before printing.

FREE with every order

Tier 1

Minor adjustments to prep your artwork.

Example Services:

  • Adding printing bleed to artwork.
  • Minor adjustments such as moving in elements.
  • Digital proofs will be sent for approval before printing.

Price: £60.00 an hour
Quote: Sent separately to product.

Tier 2

More complex modifications and setup.

Example Services:

  • Fitting or resizing artwork to our templates.
  • Converting complex vectors to metallic.
  • Digital proofs will be sent for approval before printing.

Price: £100.00 an hour
Quote: Sent separately to product.

Tier 3

Significant work needed to create or modify artwork.

Example Services:

  • Adding metallics to artwork (for .psd's or flat images).
  • Setting up artwork based on your brief.
  • Digital proofs will be sent for approval before printing.

Price: £100.00 an hour
Quote: Sent separately to product, with an estimate on time and cost.

Step 6
Test Pack
line art style, with fishing hook pack

Here are Ivory, we offer a FREE test pack service. This means you can get your important prototype made before commiting to a full run. Whether you're in need of approval from high ups, running a crowdfunding or kickstarter, or want to try it out on some friends first. Our Test pack service is here to make it easier.

Order your FREE test pack now and see your project come to life! Simply request a quote on our website or drop us an email at info@ivory.co.uk and we'll send over a bespoke quote and a link to order.

Before your order goes to print, we send over digital proofs to ensure that you're happy with the quality and our in-house design studio will even send you some notes if they think something needs to be edited for that perfect print.

Once your digital proofs are approved your order goes straight to our Production Team. Dispatch times can vary depending on your orders specification, so be sure to check your bespoke quotation as it will be listed on there under Delivery. We'll also send through an Order Confirmation to confirm every aspect of the order, delivery address and our delivery date.

When you've received your test pack and have decided you're happy to go ahead, give us a shout! We're happy to help with some alterations if needed after you've done some testing. Just let us know what quantity you were interested in ordering and we'll set up a new order where the process begins again.

Your test pack charge will be refunded on your new quotation or we can send over an invoice and payment.