EDIT: Setting card width to 2.5" is too big. Using 2.44" is better. Has anyone figured out how to fit cards together with no margin between, using Google Docs? (I don't want to use a different word processor.)

I’ve had some success making proxy cards using Google Drive, fiveringsdb.com, and FedEx Print and Go. Here’s how I did it:

1. Create a document in Google Drive; Letter (8.5” x 11”), Portrait orientation, these margins:
Top 0.2”, Bottom 0”, Left and Right 0.4”

2. Get the “SetImageSize” add-on for Google Docs.

3. Copy and paste card images from fiveringsdb.com or other sources.

4. Use the SetImageSize sidebar to resize each image width to 2.5” (keeping the ratio between width and height).

5. For multiples, copy and paste images after they’ve been resized.

6. Create page breaks by pressing enter with the cursor after the third row of each page.

7. Download as a PDF.

8. Locate a FedEx Office store near you.

9. Send the PDF file as an attachment to [email protected]. You will get an email reply with a retrieval code.

10. Use this code to retrieve and print your document at the nearest FedEx Office store. You can input the code directly to the copier machine yourself. (Print one test page first in black and white.) For me, the cost for printing color was $0.65 per page.

11. Cut the cards using a precise paper cutter (one with a slider, not a chopping arm). There should be one at the FedEx Office store. Don’t leave any white borders.

12. Put your proxies in card sleeves with other cards behind them.

At first I was using my own printer, but the ink started getting low. (Plus, I like the print quality at FedEx better.) If you are using your own printer, you may need to select the “fit to page” option. The cards will be smaller, so it’s not necessary to trim all the white from around the cards. Good luck!

1) open Microsoft Word

2) set the margins as small as your printer will allow.

3) paste image.

4) resize image to be 3.5 in. high

5) repeat 3 and 4 for every card. You should be able to fit 9 per page

6) print

7) find a paper cutter, because cutting with scissor will take a month and a half.

8) cut

9) play!

1 hour ago, Kakita Shijin said:

I’ve had some success making proxy cards using Google Drive, fiveringsdb.com, and FedEx Print and Go. Here’s how I did it:

1. Create a document in Google Drive; Letter (8.5” x 11”), Portrait orientation, these margins:
Top 0.2”, Bottom 0”, Left and Right 0.4”

2. Get the “SetImageSize” add-on for Google Docs.

3. Copy and paste card images from fiveringsdb.com or other sources.

4. Use the SetImageSize sidebar to resize each image width to 2.5” (keeping the ratio between width and height).

5. For multiples, copy and paste images after they’ve been resized.

6. Create page breaks by pressing enter with the cursor after the third row of each page.

7. Download as a PDF.

8. Locate a FedEx Office store near you.

9. Send the PDF file as an attachment to [email protected]. You will get an email reply with a retrieval code.

10. Use this code to retrieve and print your document at the nearest FedEx Office store. You can input the code directly to the copier machine yourself. (Print one test page first in black and white.) For me, the cost for printing color was $0.65 per page.

11. Cut the cards using a precise paper cutter (one with a slider, not a chopping arm). There should be one at the FedEx Office store. Don’t leave any white borders.

12. Put your proxies in card sleeves with other cards behind them.

At first I was using my own printer, but the ink started getting low. (Plus, I like the print quality at FedEx better.) If you are using your own printer, you may need to select the “fit to page” option. The cards will be smaller, so it’s not necessary to trim all the white from around the cards. Good luck!

The addon was the bit I was missing. Thanks!

4 hours ago, Yogo Gohei said:

1) open Microsoft Word

2) set the margins as small as your printer will allow.

3) paste image.

4) resize image to be 3.5 in. high

5) repeat 3 and 4 for every card. You should be able to fit 9 per page

6) print

7) find a paper cutter, because cutting with scissor will take a month and a half.

8) cut

9) play!

This cannot be emphasized enough. Go to a kinkos or something if you have to. Even with the drive you'll save a ton of time.

I've been printing them at Staples, which is not ideal, but there's no real alternative near me currently.

Also, I have been cutting them all out with scissors, and yeah, it sucks. Ah, well.

17 hours ago, Togashi Gao Shan said:

Also, I have been cutting them all out with scissors, and yeah, it sucks. Ah, well.

Scissors are slow, for sure. It's faster if you look at the end of the line you're cutting instead of the cutting point. #LPT

Why go through all that trouble? Just print them out yourselves and click the button on your printer to print wallet size. 9 per sheet is automatic and everything is sized just fine. It doesn't even matter what size each card is.

Screw all those extra steps and pay someone to print them out. That's just way too much!

3 hours ago, Sparks Duh said:

Why go through all that trouble? Just print them out yourselves and click the button on your printer to print wallet size. 9 per sheet is automatic and everything is sized just fine. It doesn't even matter what size each card is.

Screw all those extra steps and pay someone to print them out. That's just way too much!

Sadly, I realized that it actually costs at least as much to print them on our home printer as it does to get the printed elsewhere, and the quality isn't as good.

1 minute ago, Togashi Gao Shan said:

Sadly, I realized that it actually costs at least as much to print them on out home printer as it does to get the printed elsewhere, and the quality isn't as good.

This is simply a false statement all the way around.

3 hours ago, Sparks Duh said:

That's just way too much!

...and now I've made myself sad.

Just now, Sparks Duh said:

This is simply a false statement all the way around.

Yup, because you know how much it costs to print high quality full color pages with our printer, what the final product looks like, etc.

2 minutes ago, Togashi Gao Shan said:

Yup, because you know how much it costs to print high quality full color pages with our printer, what the final product looks like, etc.

It doesn't matter. You can buy a brand new printer (that comes with ink) for about $20. And it would STILL be cheaper than paying someone print them for you.

1 minute ago, Sparks Duh said:

It doesn't matter. You can buy a brand new printer (that comes with ink) for about $20. And it would STILL be cheaper than paying someone print them for you.

And the ink cartridge that comes with those printers will only get you a handful of high quality color pages of cards. Also, most of those printers purposefully pack in under-filled ink cartridges.

You seem to have a habit of insisting that your particular experiences and circumstances universally apply to everyone.

Just now, Togashi Gao Shan said:

And the ink cartridge that comes with those printers will only get you a handful of high quality color pages of cards. Also, most of those printers purposefully pack in under-filled ink cartridges.

You seem to have a habit of insisting that your particular experiences and circumstances universally apply to everyone.

Nope. I'm just offering an alternative to other people's experiences and circumstances. There's always a better way. I don't claim my way is the only way... just better.