Custom Cards

[LotsofAutos]

Hello everyone, I have recently became a huge fan of creating custom signature cards to send out to favorite athletes. However, I've been printing the front on Hp advanced photo paper and the back on curl proof card stock. I'm having a few issues, 1. When I glue it, The card does in fact curl when I take it out of a plastic top loader. I've tried using the smallest amount of glue possible and it hasn't helped. 2. After awhile, the two pieces of paper separate from each other no matter what glue I try. My question is what kind of paper can I use to print on both sides so I don't have these problems? also is there any paper out there that is the thickness of regular sports cards that I can use?

[acarter13]

i dont know about the paper rthickness, but if you want to print on both sides, you need a double sided printing printer. I hope this helps.

~AC

[LotsofAutos]

Yes it does, thank you so much. Could I possibly buy double sided glossy paper and set my printer to manually print on both sides?

[acarter13]

i dont think there is a setting like tha, but you kight want to try printing on 1 side and then flippping the paper and possibly rotating it , that mayt work, im not quite sure though

[RYAN J.]

I'd suggest switching to heavy duty Cardstock. I use that for all my custom cards it it works great.

RYAN J.

[LotsofAutos]

Thanks Ryan, can you send me a picture of one of your custom cards and also I tried searching heavy duty cardstock and get no hits.

[RYAN J.]

Photos of my custom cards are on my website. I don't do the double sided versions though.

http://s81.photobucket.com/albums/j201/ ... utographs/

If you live in the USA, any stationary store like Wal-mart or Staples wil carry cardstock. You can buy it in all sorts of colors.

RYAN J.

[LotsofAutos]

Thanks Ryan, I have staples 110 lb card stock I have printed cards on it before but notice the picture fades much quicker than on photo paper. Have you had that problem?

[RYAN J.]

Not really, as I get all my professional photos printed at a photo lab. They use high quality inks which resist fading and use archival photo paper. my custom cards are the only thing I print at home though and I've never had any problems with them fading.

RYAN J.