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Printing custom trading cards: stock, finish and size explained
What makes a printed custom card feel real — card size, bleed, card stock and finish — and what to check before you order.
A great design deserves a great print. These are the things that make the difference between a flimsy printout and a card that feels like the real thing.
Card size
Most trading card games, including One Piece, Pokémon and Magic, use the standard 63 × 88 mm card size. Yu-Gi-Oh! cards are slightly smaller. Our makers export at the right size for each game.
Bleed
Bleed is a few extra millimetres of artwork around the edge that gets trimmed away after printing. It makes sure there are no white slivers on the edges of your card. The print-ready export in our makers includes bleed automatically.
Card stock and finish
We print on premium card stock with a smooth finish, so the card shuffles and sleeves like a regular card from a booster pack.
Ordering more saves money
The price per card drops as you add more cards to your cart, and the lower price applies to every card in the order — so it pays to print a whole deck at once.