No worries. If you have any questions regarding the print processes feel free to PM me and I’ll answer if I can :D

Ah OK, sorry, my bad.

Thanks for the link though, it is interesting to have a look at. Do you know ones in Germany are already printing cards like that Chinese place you linked or are you talking about general online print stores that are based in germany?

The reason I ask as if they already do a lot of cards (like the Chinese one obviously does) they will already have a lot of the requires equipment like dies available and in use, if however they are just a generic online print store like say redbubble sort of thing then they may add drastic extra costs to cover additional tooling where they don’t already have it, so I would definitely suggest leaning towards companies that already deal in printing cards like that link.

Either way sorry I can’t give you an idea of costs or more help.

I foiled these pokemon card things last year at work for a Christmas limited edition and the foiling process alone cost them around €500 for around 250 sheets which is why I suggest you go with someone that already has the tooling required.

Good luck, I’d be interested to see the results once you do get something done!

If you want any kind of decent quality then it probably isnt going to be cost effective for you to print them yourself.

Firstly you are going to have to pay for the stock for it to be printed onto.

By the nature of the fact you will not want long runs of all the same cards and thus have many sheets all with different cards on you are going to have to get them digitally printed as opposed to litho. Digital quality these days is very good and most people will not be able to tell the difference but wizards would have them done litho and they would be of a better quality because of it. Digital is also not quite as accurate in terms of registration which can make more or less of a difference depending on the method of cutting them out you use.

Im not sure if the real cards are laminated or not from memory but if they are and you wanted to replicate that that is another process that would need to be paid for for machine time and materials. Lamination would make them a lot more durable for sure.

If you want foils then you would need to pay for dies to be made for the foiling as well as then the foil and machine time for doing that.

Cutting them out you would need to have dies made to have them die cut to shape. You could have them cut normally then use a round corner cutter on every card but that is time consuming and less accurate. The registration of the printing method here would then make a difference so depending on how good the print is you may have off center cards with poor borders etc. You could also get them cut on a flat bed die cutting machine which would be more accurate as it uses registration dots that are printed to get its position so the registration of the print in relation to the paper is less vital with that but it costs more.

This is a very big rabbit hole that you could fall into and it all gets very expensive very quickly. You typical high street print shop will be able to get a reasonable finish but the small machines they use are never going to be as good as their industrial grade counter parts.

I personally think it would probably be more cost effective for you to buy job lots of actual cards from eBay and maybe search out some specific sets you want.

We havent even talked about where you are going to get the artwork from for the print shop and paying them for laying down the cards and imposing them for their machines which is costly before anything goes towards paper.

I would recommend trying to find a print shop local to you and going in and having a basic conversation with them about what kind of thing you want to achieve and just get a basic idea of costs to give yourself an idea of an approximate cost for the kind of finish you want to achieve and decide if it is a route you want to go down before maybe then shopping around for the print shop you think may be the best as I think you are going to be surprised at how much it will set you back to print the stuff yourself.

I have no experience of Chinese print houses and their prices / quality.

This just shows how different everyone is though. The only trips I regret are the ones where I have gone with other people. Travelling with other people is the fucking worst for me and it just ruins any trip having another person there with me, no matter the relationship.

OP is gonna need to try both though to get a feel for what they like.

I feel the same but what it comes down to for me is I hate Nintendo IPs and for the most part it is the Nintendo games that bring people to their consoles.

Pretty much everything else is available elsewhere. Or at least that is the impression I get. Does the console have any noteworthy exclusives that aren’t Nintendo characters.

Pokemon would be the main thing that appealed for me too but I liked red, blue, stadium and that was about it. I didnt play much after that and what I did didnt stick so I think I’d have similar feelings to you towards the new ones.

UK is the same in that respect.

Thanks. Gonna check this out :)

Thanks. Gonna check this out :)

Yes but also no, the fairphone doesn’t meet the extensive list of requirements required to maintain the goal of GrapheneOS - List of requirements for devices

I don’t know how long you have used Strava for but for how long I used it a lot of those features you now pay for used to be standard features that came with the app. You didn’t need to pay to get access to all those things and when you have been using features for literally a decade and then suddenly they are held to ransom it kind of pisses you off and makes you not want to use that shit any longer.

I’ll be honest I haven’t looked super into alternatives as of yet as I have only recently got around to dropping Garmin which was fine for me for a long time so maybe there is something out there already that fits my needs anyway :)

Sweet, thank for the recommendation. I will check that out when I get a chance. I think I dropped Strava before you as I don’t remember that, I was just pissed off with the constant erosion of key features put behind paywalls since I had been using them since 2010 or something like that so it just became too much that things I had used for years were now gone!

Who, Garmin? The fact that they added a paid subscription model “Garmin Connect +” for “premium features” that is the first step in the enshittification play book and how Strava started before they slowly erodes features away and put them behind a pay wall of a “subscription service”. I spent a lot of money on watches over my 15 plus years of using Garmin products and do not appreciate them adding paid subscription bullshit.

Add on to that the fact they are an American company with no offline options I’d rather not be sending a lot of sensitive health and location settings to American servers constantly every single day. So those two factors should be reason enough for everyone to start rejecting them IMO.

This is cool but I dropped Strava a while ago due to their constant enshittification. As another poster said I would be super interested in something similar that allows importing data from different sources as I have just also dropped garmin for the same reasons and moved to gadgetbridge but will probably miss some of the more granular comparison abilities garmin offered.

Good luck either way with this!

Someone has been watching Technology Connections :p

I miss Blackberry a lot but this ain’t it.

That doesn’t really work in my experience because artists seem to be incapable of tagging their work correctly.

This, I think, is the best way. You start to recognise people that are buying all the same stuff you like so follow them and periodically have a look at what they are buying.

All other avenues on bandcamp are a bit shit IMO. Tags are dog shit because artists never tag their work correctly and my feed will constantly be old shit I listened to a long time ago. You can’t even rely on it to let you know when artists you follow release new work.

I love bandcamp but I also fucking hate bandcamp xD

For whatever reason my first thoughts was Opiuo - Meraki

If I were a jellyfish I’d be bopping to this as I swam around the ocean xD