Playing Cards Manufacturers

 

Custom playing cards made for you from TMCARDS are made with the finest quality stock from Germany France and India. Since TMCARDS is vertically integrated we are able to control the processes at every stage.

Playing Cards are not a recent discovery but one of the cheapest forms of entertainment for centuries. Playing cards and variants of playing card games date back all the way to the 9th Century. They were Originally Found in China and India and the and then gradually introduced to the rest of the world and soon it had gone global with a variety of games and tricks that followed.

At the time when they were invented playing cards were only used for one purpose and that is to gamble but progressively, custom playing cards are being used for a number of purposes like advertising, games, education, Promotional, Tarot, Magic Tricks, Card structures, illusions, cardistry, Mentalism and many others included. A complete set of cards is called a pack or deck, and the set of cards held at one time by a player during a game is commonly called a hand.

A Suit or pips as it is one of several categories into which the cards of a deck are divided. Western card decks use hearts, clubs, spades, and diamonds as the suits. Each Deck contains 52 Cards depicting the 52 weeks of the year Therefore; the whole deck is also equal to 364 days of the year (the positivist calendar).

The most popular card games played are Poker, Texas Hold’em Blackjack, and Gin, Gin Rummy, Ride the Tide, Solitaire, Uno Etc etc.

Playing Card Materials

Card Materials vary from the low 240 GSM one side coated to the pure plastic and Cellulose Acetate materials that are used in the making of KEM 100 % Cards.

Stock used for playing card manufacturing is calculated and quoted in gsm and often confused with the caliper of the stock, meaning which one can have a thin stock of 300 microns and still have it in 315 gsm or have a stock of 290 gsm and still have a bulk and caliper of 320 GSM.

Some of the new breed on the internet who claim to be playing card manufacturers are actually outsourcing their entire production, have little or no experience as to what the client actually requires and are unable to fulfill the same.

Material Stock for Different Playing Card

Usually the discerning Poker Player and the professional casinos use the black centered or the black core card as its properties do not allow the suits to be seen thru the back when the card is held up against strong light. Black centered cards come in different gsm from 270 to 330 GSM the most popular being the 300 and 315 GSM for the regular professional decks.

Promotional or personalized playing cards are usually printed on art card of the 260 to 280 gsm variety wherein the quantities are for medium range distribution usually for the 25000 to 100000 quantities for promotional purposes.

The low end high distribution values of over 100 k quantities are the one side coated playing card that go as low as 14 cents a deck.

Casino cards always have their logos on the back of the cards making them look classy and a great branding tool besides making sure that patrons cannot introduce their own decks while playing leading to great losses in the playing cards.

Casinos usually opt for cards that are flexible and do retain the straightness when bent over and have a smooth cut and finish. The heavier the stock the more easy it is to slide across the green baize but does have to conform to a usual thickness of 300 to 310 microns.

The new and the veteran poker playing brethren are now moving on to getting their cards personalized almost like a status symbol and like professional playing cards.