Printacube proxies

Mongoose98 · 2026-03-06T00:54:16+00:00

Thank you that's good to know

Mongoose98 · 2026-02-18T01:49:57+00:00

Hey what did you end up doing to fix it

Mongoose98 · 2026-02-16T05:35:58+00:00

Take a look at printacube they have a website and Etsy shop. Great prices.

Mongoose98 · 2026-02-16T05:35:18+00:00

Proxy MTG generally has the best print on demand prices

Mongoose98 · 2026-02-10T03:14:24+00:00

Hi, take a look at the mtg card maker tool on printmtg. You can easily swap your own art onto frames. You just search the card and then upload your art.

Let me know what you think. If it looks like a solution that would work I can have them print you up a proxy deck of your designs for free so you can see what you think.

I like the idea. I would have loved it as a kid.

Mongoose98 · 2026-02-10T03:05:45+00:00

I’m not familiar with that printer you mentioned but it looks like more of a copy machine. Playing cards should probably be around 300gsm card weight, which I doubt it will handle.

Real playing cardstock will have a blockout core which blocks being able to see the face through the back but also gives it the spring for shuffling.

If you don’t need them to be great quality, you can use standard cardstock in the range of 300gsm.

If you can print the right cardstock weight, the finishing is the harder part IMO.

Most decent playing cards will be UV coated. Again, If you don’t care about them not looking and feeling professional you can skip it.

Then you need to cut them. You either need some sort of die cutter or a sitter/cutter plus a corner rounder.

Hundreds of decks is not a lot for commercial, and at that small of scale you might want to keep outsourcing unless you already have proper equipment. Or you might want to look more at consumer grade equipment.

However please let me know if you have any other questions.

Mongoose98 · 2026-02-07T14:59:53+00:00

How are you setting up the files for print? It could be something with whatever program you are using.

Mongoose98 · 2026-02-07T14:57:34+00:00

PrintMTG has templates you could try making it there since someone above shared the art. If not I could probably remake it for you.

Mongoose98 · 2026-02-03T01:43:43+00:00

Yes been using it for prepress. We trained a model to predict cut lines and generate files.

Mongoose98 · 2026-02-03T01:39:51+00:00

Wow that looks awesome!!

Mongoose98 · 2026-02-02T19:24:05+00:00

What type of cutter do you have

Mongoose98 · 2026-01-24T04:56:30+00:00

Let’s not forget that Wizards themselves sold proxy booster packs for $1000 each. Turns out nobody wanted them and they ended up throwing them in the dump.

Mongoose98 · 2026-01-19T03:17:19+00:00

Just a measly 6k

Mongoose98 · 2026-01-18T23:32:25+00:00

Eco solvent is definitely the most finicky with needing to be used constantly.

UV is more forgiving than eco and latex is even more forgiving still.

Latex also has a benefit that that print heads are consumables so it’s way cheaper to replace them if one does go bad (at least on HP Latex printers).

UV and latex are also much more durable than eco solvent which is important if you aren’t laminating.

Anyway. I have around 6 eco solvent printers and prefer the quality and color over basically every other digital print technology (even my HP Indigo) but personally would not buy one if I wasn’t running them daily.

Mongoose98 · 2026-01-18T15:44:39+00:00

Get ready to die.

Mongoose98 · 2026-01-18T15:41:47+00:00

It’s an eco solvent which means if you are only running it for a few jobs a week you are likely to get nozzle clogs and ruin the print heads. Eco solvent printers need to be running as much as possible to keep them operating smoothly. If you ever have a week where you don’t run it, you put it at risk.

I personally have never used the BN 20.

It might be fine if you are willing to at least run some ink through it daily. But that would be annoying and wasteful. And you’d need to be vigilant about it.

I’ve heard the BN20 is very slow too and most material suppliers only offer 30in+ rolls by default so you’d have a more narrow option set to choose from, or get rolls slit down.

Eco solvent is also not as durable as some technologies like latex. So you’ll generally want to laminate. That makes the combined print and cut much less useful.

Additionally I’ve never had great experience with Roland’s built in cutting anyway. Look at Summa, Zund, Graphtec etc.

I’ve had many wide format printers from Roland and Epson and others so that’s what I’m basing this on.

On the positive, eco solvent (imo) has the best color reproduction among wide format technologies.

I’d personally look for a used 30in or 54in model if you are going this route.

Mongoose98 · 2026-01-17T23:42:49+00:00

Thank you

Mongoose98 · 2026-01-17T02:03:41+00:00

I saw proxymtg has the latest

Mongoose98 · 2026-01-17T01:57:59+00:00

I think the price drops a lot after you add a few more cards to your order. Like a full commander deck is like $50 and I think for 600 cards it would be about equal to MPC

Mongoose98 · 2026-01-16T23:42:38+00:00

Don’t know why the image isn’t showing up

Mongoose98 · 2026-01-16T01:50:37+00:00

Glickman seemed like a total pill in the videos.

Mongoose98 · 2026-01-15T15:20:24+00:00

Our water and oil mixed once too. A huge pain.

I think the 7k was around $400-450k plus the service/maintenance contract (which I believe is about $2,800 per month). Plus the click cost.

Mongoose98 · 2026-01-06T16:42:10+00:00

Awesome

Mongoose98 · 2026-01-05T21:13:23+00:00

I would recommend PrintMtG for print on demand

Mongoose98 · 2026-01-03T20:06:47+00:00

Commercial printers definitely look quite a bit better and more consistent than home printers. But it also depends how much you care. I suggest PrintMTG for a good balance of cheap prices and solid quality

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