Card sizes, bleed and sleeving
Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2016 09:40
Hi folks,
The first proof prints where quite nice, but we face some cut issues.
The cards where cut a bit bigger then expected, 66 by 95, wile I asked for the 65 by 92 as set out in our wiki page about sizes. So they were not sleevable.
I manually cut some cards in 65 by 92. And they are not easily sleevable as well. They do fit but is really hard to get them in. Normally you put one corner of the card in the sleeve and then slide in the rest. That's not possible with the given size. You need to put in the card straight.
So, should we revise our desicion to not use the standard card sizes (63 by 88). Or reduce our custom size to 64 by 90. (I'll do a manual cut and see if the reduced size works).
Finally based on the desicion here. I'l change the templates inner content to support some more "bleed". It will take some effort to change the template sizes, but luckily once that is done the cards can be regenerated all at once.
So my question: custom size or standard size?
Kind regards,
Nico
The first proof prints where quite nice, but we face some cut issues.
The cards where cut a bit bigger then expected, 66 by 95, wile I asked for the 65 by 92 as set out in our wiki page about sizes. So they were not sleevable.
I manually cut some cards in 65 by 92. And they are not easily sleevable as well. They do fit but is really hard to get them in. Normally you put one corner of the card in the sleeve and then slide in the rest. That's not possible with the given size. You need to put in the card straight.
So, should we revise our desicion to not use the standard card sizes (63 by 88). Or reduce our custom size to 64 by 90. (I'll do a manual cut and see if the reduced size works).
Finally based on the desicion here. I'l change the templates inner content to support some more "bleed". It will take some effort to change the template sizes, but luckily once that is done the cards can be regenerated all at once.
So my question: custom size or standard size?
Kind regards,
Nico