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I recently had a copy of Cards Against Humanity printed at Staples, and I wanted to share my success.
I had the cards printed on 110lb cardstock, and cut down to business card size, on their machines.
I was able to get them printed for $18.66 after tax.
Background!
I wanted to buy Cards Against humanity, but it is sold out on Amazon, and sellers are charging $250.00 for it!
So I figured, the instructions have a set of cards I can print at Staples, I wonder if anyone's made something where the cards are bigger.
While searching, I came across the link to the nanDECK template for Cards against humanity.
This was nice, but originally, I thought: "Maybe I will send these to a custom playing card printer", so I took the template they had, and made it match the online playing card template.
After realizing what a mess the online cards would be, for 700 cards, I started looking into Staples again.
I came across the "Business cards against humanity" link, and thought, this could work...
My issue was that I did not want to have the front of the black cards printed in black ink, but leave the back the white of the paper from Staples
I searched on google for the model of card cutter listed on the business card link, and found the dimension that it cuts at.
After that, I was able to alter the nanDECK template, to fit in the business card format!
Resources!
Cards Against Humanity Template, Images, and CSV files for nanDECK ( Requires Registration )
'Business Cards Against Humanity': A PDF Formatted specifically for Staples' business card cutting machine.
My Contributions,
- A nanDECK template that will make cards that fit in Staple's cutting machine: Black text on transparent background, for different colored paper.
- A nanDECK template that will make cards that fit in Staple's cutting machine: Black text on transparent background for the Answers, White text on Black background for the questions ( Like the original )
- A nanDECK template that will make cards for online playing card printers
Instructions!
- Download nanDECK, and optionally the manual; The program is just 1 exe file.
- Download the Template, Images, and CSV files that I started with. This currently requires registration.
- Download one of my templates.
- For Staples Business card cutter
- Black on White "Answers" and White on Black "Questions", that both print on white cardstock.
- Black on White "Answers" and "Question", that you print on different colored cardstock.
- For printerstudio.com custom playing cards.
- Put nanDECK.exe, the Template files, and all the CSV files in the same directory.
- Run nanDECK, and open the template that you want to use nanDECK calls these template files a "Deck".
- Notice the entries in the form of: link="...csv" The apostrophe comments out the CSV files, and you can operate on 1 at a time.
- Select the CSV you want to build, by removing the apostrophe from in front of it, and putting an apostrophe in front of all the other link entries.
- You could merge all of the CSV files together, and change the template to have the 1 only, if you want
- Hit 'Validate Deck'; This will check the syntax of the template and show you how many cards were in the CSV ( in the bottom right ).
- Hit 'Build Deck'; This will apply the template to all of the entries in the CSV, and show you what the card looks like on the right.
- For Staples Business card cutter
- Hit 'PDF'; This will generate a PDF document that you can take to Staples on a thumb drive.
- I called my local staples, and asked if the guy working there had heard of this game before.
- He had, so I told him that someone online had made a version of the printer sheet to work with the Business card cutting machine
and I wanted to know: If I came to have it printed on cardstock, would he cut it on the machine for me? - He asked me to e-mail him a copy at the Staples address, and he would test it for me. He ran it through, and it cut correctly!
- So I drove up there with the PDF on my thumb drive, and asked to have pages 1-54 printed on white
and the rest of the pages printed on a blue or red. He only had blue, so that's what I went with. - For printerstudio.com custom playing cards.
- Hit 'Save Images'; This will generate individual images that you can upload to the printer.
- The 'Path' that shows up is a file prefix, if you put in "C:\Cards\" it will make cards names like "C:\Cards\_100.jpg".