Sunday, August 3rd, 2008
Card-Shark.de has a rather interesting online application to design your own custom gaff cards and have them professionally printed. The app is quite simple and only has a handful of options, however the admin of the site claims that he can print just about any design on a playing card in A+ quality. So should the app not cut it for you, you can always contact the owner of the site, Christian Schenk, and work out something with him as he seems more than personable enough to do so. Check out the app here.
Also be sure and visit the the main site here and check out their other gaff card options. A must see for those that are tired of scrubbing off pips and printing smeared cards from an inkjet.
[via Bicycle-Cards.co.uk]
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Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
You know round here at phatus we like ourselves some free any chance we get. Well heres 2 for the weekend. Happy Easter!
First freebee is openoffice.org – OpenOffice is a full suite of “open source” office applications. It supports many formats and best of all its FREE. The Main application of interest at the moment is OpenOffice’s “Calc”. Calc is OpenOffice’s substitute for Microsoft Excel. And quite the substitute it is.
This brings me to my next links. I say if you are gonna print some gaffs, then print some gaffs. Here are two files. Both are “Calc” files that I have created. The files have their cells set to the exact dimensions of a standard playing card and fit 6 cards per sheet.
(One with borders) and
(One without borders). We suggest a thick cardstock paper for the next steps. Simply open the first file with borders in calc, mark the bottom left of the first paper in the printer tray, and print it out. Now cut out the space(s) you would like to print in with a razor knife and straightedge. Now your blanks should embed themselves perfectly in your cutout(s). Now just Tape the back around the perimeter covering as much of the card as you like and as a bonus the face is completely exposed(use laser labels instead of tape for easy peeling). Next, load the second borderless file into Calc. Click the mouse once in the cell that you would like to insert your gaff into. 
Next From the file menu select (insert, picture, from file), then select your gaff card file. Assuming you cropped your borders good on your image, Calc will automatically scale and center the gaff image in the cell leaving you with 5 other bays available. Use em up, and print it!. Remember to make note of the “BL”(bottom left) that you marked in the first print. The cards should peel easy out of the cardstock (like a sticker), and plus you can save the cardstock as a template for your next 6. This will save you much ink in the long run on test prints.
Here is an attempt at an export to Microsoft excel (no guarantees) Borders | No Borders
Hope you enjoy this.
Note: This is new and experimental, If you have troubles with the template’s sizes or alignment please email us.
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