We make all of our playing cards in-house in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada using premium, black-core card stock. Why does it matter that our playing cards are made in Canada? Buying playing cards made in Canada can make sense for you if you are looking for faster turnaround times, faster shipping, and/or to avoid tariffs, depending…
While you may have a beautiful artwork or photograph you would like to use to design your custom playing cards, we can only work with it if it’s in the right file format. Also important, however, is the resolution of the file you plan to use, as higher quality images produce better results. So, if…
Designing custom playing cards means thinking beyond how your images look on screen. Print quality is something completely different, and if your image resolution isn’t right, your cards could come out grainy or pixelated, no matter how good they looked on your monitor, as printing presses are far more detailed than web images, thus requiring…
Card stock comes in two main types — black-core and white-core — but black-core is the only one worth printing quality playing cards on. What is black-core card stock? The Playing Card Factory uses black-core card stock exclusively. The core of an individual card determines how much light passes through to the other side. White-core…
At the Playing Card Factory, you can order as little as one deck. That’s right, there is no minimum order quantity for playing cards across all of our design options, and it is always made with our premium, black-core card stock, just like the larger orders. This is in comparison to many of the other companies…