I have 300gsm 100lb matte cardstock and an Epson 2800 printer. I have adjusted brightness to 8, contrast to 4, and saturation to 10. They are coming out sort of washed out and the black or shadow isn’t crisp at all. Seeing the attached image what are some suggestions.
Hi all - I've just gotten into making my own proxies, as a way to get some fun custom lands/tokens as well as being able to battle-test some decks before buying actual cards.
I've tested on about 30 sheets so far, at a mix of DPIs (some straight from Proxxied, some upscaled to 600dpi, some to 1200dpi) and seeing similar quality across all of them.
Printing on Koala 180gsm matte photo paper, via Acrobat on MacOS.
I'm finding the colours very dark, the text not as sharp as I see in other people's prints, and I'm wondering if I'm missing something basic.
Does anyone else use this printer that gets super-sharp results (specially card text)? Any ideas on why I might be seeing the colours coming through darker than in the origin media (the PDF)? I'm not using colour correction, and sometimes I am. I turned off bidirectional printing to some improvement, but still not as close to a real card as I was hoping.
Cheers.
Hi,
Im getting good results with KOALA 180gsm Double Sided Glossy and 50 micron laminate. My issue is the prints get light scratches very easy (before laminating). Something I have to print the same page 3 times for scratch less result, and for sure forget about priting the backside by running the page through the inkjetn printer again without ruining the front.
I dont think its a matter of waiting for the ink to dry, this paper with ink is just very sensitive to scratches.
Any other paper you guys would recommend thats scratch free but still has good vidid sharp prints?
Saw the new Shattered Mirror Facet Foil treatment from Reality Fracture and had to try replicating it.
Process:
Card art printed straight onto a rainbow holo sticker sheet, stuck to a printed back, then laminated with a glossy pouch. Clear coat goes on next, same as usual. Difference this time, I masked over just the shard shapes before that clear coat pass. After it dries, cards get cut and rounded, masking gets weeded out, then sandwiched with sticker backing and run through the hot laminator. Shards keep the full gloss, everything else diffuses down to that softer card sheen.
Caveat:
Only had a standard rainbow holo sheet, so the shimmer's not a perfect match. Real card looks like it'll have a different holo pattern. Treating this as proof of concept for now.
Might turn it into a full video later but wanted you guys to see it first. Feedback and suggestions welcome.
PS:
Base card full process video is in the works, no ETA yet, just didn't want to sit on this one 😊
I want to get going and I am quite excited. I am currently cutting scrap paper to see if the cutter is clean.
What else can I do to clean it?
I am huge MF DOOM and Doom fan so I had to make this Reskin of Doctor Doom from the marvel set. Time to build this deck out.
This was something that I was hacking away at for a while now as I've been upgrading my EDH decks and wanted to see the different printings that are available for a card. My main frustration came when it was time to throw my list into MTGProxyPrinter and I had to keep a separate window open to see what each card's printing looked like.
PlanesAdvisor (I've had the domain name for a couple years now so I had to use it lol), allows you to use scryfall syntax to lookup, select, and export cards with their set code and number in the list as well. I'm still working through full mobile support, but it wasn't my target platform and I do not recommend using it on your phone.
I've also used the tool for finding cool cards to gift to friends. Please any and all feedback at me, thank you!
Hey guys! Wanted to let you know the Premodern scene has been growing rapidly in Phoenix Arizona, This started as me just trying to find a few people to play with as i was unhappy with the direction of magic and never in my wild dreams did i think it would go this well. So thank you to everyone that has made this possible. We have been having a consistent 12-14 people come out every Tuesday for our free-to-play Premodern nights. Due to the success of the weekly events and the interest from all the new faces we see every week who want a monthly tournament to look forward to, ArizonaPremodern.com—home of the "Phoenician Dreadnoughts"—is proud to present our first monthly tournament in partnership with Gamers Guild AZ! All details, including Discord event registrations and a link to pre-purchase your event ticket from Gamers Guild, can be found on our website.
I know many of you have reported having your card information stolen after ordering from PrintingProxies.com. Is this still happening today?
Unfortunately, I only read the reviews after placing my order. There were so many reports of fraudulent charges that I immediately replaced my card as a precaution.
For those of you who ordered recently or in the last year, did you have any issues with unauthorized charges? Thanks
I’ve been cataloging the illustration work of the infamous maestro dell'eros, hunting down the highest quality scans from auction sites and blogs. I had all these beautiful images to hand so thought why not turn some of his finest non-explicit works into proxies!
If you’d like to know more about any of the pieces featured here just ask, I have more source information for most of them. Google Drive link below, including full resolution versions, the original uncropped art and extended bleed-edge versions for printing.
I think they came up really good! Pretty impressed by the results. Using ET-2862
For those that play MTG, an Izzet commander is just so perfect for her and with how busted Vivi can be. I had to do it 😂
I love Iron Man, but didn't love the options for the main Iron Man card of the set. So I ended up making a lot of variants until I was content.
Cards are also available on MPCfill.
Hi folks!
Inspired by the works of "oddities_alters" (insta profile is worth a look) and the oldschool Fantasy art of Michael Whelan: here is my latest border defying version of "Cyclonic Rift".
It still has some imperfections, but I am quite happy with how everything came together.
My procedure for making this card:
- go to mythicblackcore, create account, design card, find the card I want via search, select Antiquities frame, upload own image (without uploading, so I get transparent background) > generate
- downloaded the image on mythicblackcore (no bleed in my case), import in program of your choice (I used gimp), add layers, cut the black background and the black frame to achieve transparency where your art will shine through (I used the magic wand tool for that)
- download high-res picture (or use upscayle to increase) and add preferred artwork into program
- add some more layers and do some more cutting, copying your artwork, tracking everything with lasso tool and invert what you circled, then delete to achieve transparent background for the overlap into the frame and textbox
- lastly add the artists the signature (should also be or made transparent) and here we are
I'm sorry if this explanation is no good, English is not my mothertongue. You should at least have a basic skillset with gimp/photoshop/inkscape or any other image manipulation program.