Created colour scale from that and matched the colour scale for the remaining 54 illustrations. Only 5 of the 54 scans needed further colour correction. The plates are burned on a Cortron Step and Repeat Unit. The essential elements that make a playing card a playing card are the paper and varnish. A. Paper is 2 ply playing card stock.
Most stock is from mills in Germany and France.
It is laminated with a black graphite glue that guarantees that they are opaque. This is a custom, Carta Mundi-designed piece of equipment manufactured by Gemstar that looks like a combination of a model train set and a NASA Mars lander. It slits the sheets, cuts them, assembles the deck, trims the rounded corners, drops in any custom cards or instruction sheets that may have been produced off-line, inserts the complete deck into the tuck box and wraps them with a Martin Edwards Cello Wrapping unit. All this without, theoretically, interruption or human intervention. Notes and review deck kindly provided by Michael Metzler .