Later TPCI started print Korean cards again, which were first produced in the US for the market in South Korea. Nowadays most cards come from PBM, which has since been acquired by Consolidated Graphics. Starting with the Diamond & Pearl block, production of all international cards for the market outside of Asia was moved to the US. When TPCI took over the printing from WOTC, they continued to use the same printers. USA: Cartamundi, The United States Playing Card Company, PBM Graphics, UV Color, Rainier Color, Yaquinto Printing Here's an (incomplete) list of the printers WOTC used: They used printing facilities in the USA, Belgium, UK and Australia. Wizards of the Coast used printers in a variety of countries to keep up with the tremendous demand during the Pokemon boom.

There's vast differences in the look and layout of the Uncut Sheets, depending on where they are printed. Those are then cut into individual cards and go through a corner rounding station where they receive the typical rounded corners you know from Pokemon cards. And if you really want to, you can even harness the power of crowdfunding to finance a larger print-run, and get your deck into the hands of other collectors.Trading cards are not printed individually, but on large Uncut Sheets. There's a large number of manufacturers available online that will readily print your playing cards for you. To begin with, powerful graphics programs are available for little or no cost, and you can use these to make original designs on your home computer. If you are a hobbyist designer, you can easily turn your personal design into a printed product courtesy of technology and the internet. But times have changed, and current technology means that the resources to make your own deck of custom playing cards are well within reach of the average person.

There was a time where the only way you could successfully make a custom deck of playing cards was to use a major playing card manufacturer, and be a successful artist or designer fortunate enough to get a contract with a big publisher.

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