Not bad at all, and perfectly servicable for playing. If it went into one of the new sleeves it should help with the shuffling...
How you print your cards?
That's a good point... though I'm still wondering about other card creation methods as well. I'll have to order up some sleeves to compare.
Well, I tried another process. Photo dpi print on standard photo paper, both printed by laser and inkjet. Quality of print difference was unnoticable, though both home inkjet and shop laserjet had too much drift for two-sided printing.
Next tried separate one sided printing with crop marks and a grid of 4 x 4 card images, alternating front, back, front, back, etc. I laid a self adhering laminate sheet over the printed side. Once done, I split the sheet down the middle and adherred the two halves together with acid free adhesive for a two sided layout of 8 cards. So far so good, and lined up well, maybe 1/32th drift at most.
Then came the build up of dissatisfaction. I've got all sorts of matter and hand-slide paper cutters, and I know the proper order to cut, turn, stack and cut to keep thing all the same size. But the small the units got, down to single cards, the more variance showed in tiny ways between individual cards. I sort of expected this from the start, but still had to try. You know... like being perfectly aware than an iron pan on the stove is probably hot... be even after letting it sit off the burner, some people just have to test with their fingers instead of an hot pad.
Needless to say, the sticker method and or sleeve method are the way to go... though I'm sad that I there seems to be a severe shortage of 4ER Upgrade Packages out there. And once all the BI 4th's are gone off the market, there won't be any need to print and sell upgrades, so cheap cards to deface with stickers will become a thing of the past. I just can't see throwing done another $40+ to buy a whole game for 104 Adventure cards. SIGH.
What's a guy to do but start buying sleeves and print of a mass of cardbacks to be ready and waiting.
Have you got a pic of the resulting cards to show this variance? It's be interesting to see to build up a catalogue of what's hot and what's not for card creation.
Sorry, but no... they were so bad that I chucked them. Going to have to consider how to do labels or sleeves instead.