Sorry, was working earlier and could not respond in detail.
The quoted price from Faded Spade for 250 two deck set ups sounds steep. Is that quote from factory to your door? That price gets steeper if this doesn't include shipping, taxes, duties, etc. It's good that they're willing to do a relatively small MOQ though, so that's one advantage of using them. Still, I cannot for the life of me find out who prints Faded Spade cards. Just about everyone else I know where they come from originally. For anyone on the fence on Faded Spade, their V2 stock is much, much better than their V1 stock which was terrible. They fixed the bowing and warping issues that plagued the V1 stock and the V2 stock is not as stiff as the V1 stock was. I would also inquire about custom face artwork from Faded Spade
@Buge . See this photo below of Mariano's latest vlog:
Skip to 10:58 of the video. This card room has low number cards that have a black outline around the pips in the middle of the card. Compare these to the cards earlier in the video that do not have this box surrounding the pips, which is more in line with the retail versions currently sold. I'd see if they'd be willing to customize the card faces to have the pips on the low cards boxed in, or even see if they'd do a cream colored center typical of the European cards out there to make these truly custom. Just a couple of suggestions!
Let's run down the other options before going forward though. This is what I know of:
-Dal Negro: 500 deck/color minimum. Current Desjgn print house. Offers both poker and bridge size, but card faces are not customizable, MOQ goes up to 3000 decks/color for custom faces.
-Fournier: 1000 deck/color minimum. Not likely attainable.
-Modiano: Persona non grata around here. Don't do business with.
-Cartamundi: I've been told that their Belgium Casino stock has a 1000 deck/color minimum, but have not been able to confirm. They seem to only want to deal with casinos for their casino stock. However, they seem to have done business in a small order with a small Belgian card room linked below:
https://www.pokahnights.com/collections/pokah-cards/products/mulberry-wood
@Thomacetti would know the deal way better than me, but it seems like they're willing to do a 500 deck MOQ/color on their Copag Belgium stock.
-Sunfly: Same print house as Fournier. 1000 deck/color MOQ by the look of it for custom back designs. Card stock is one and the same as Fournier (both USPCC subsidiaries)
-I'm not sure who the Chinese print house is that manufactured the King Australia playing cards is, but I'd look into them too. Their card faces have the best, smoothest finish that I've ever felt.
Feel free to add if anyone else knows of any other printers!
