Playing Card Manufacturer WJPC Printing

When it comes to producing playing cards, the vast majority of quality custom decks are produced by big name printing companies like the United States Playing Card Company. But there's a couple of reasons why it can be important to know something about the smaller players in the playing card industry.

Firstly, perhaps you're a designer or creator, looking to produce your own custom playing cards for a crowd-funded project or otherwise. Or maybe you're a consumer, and as a collector or cardist you're buying a custom deck for your collection or to use. Either way, it can be useful to know something about what options you have in printing your own deck, and what kind of quality you can expect if you buy a deck from a particular printing company.

Make Playing Cards

Not only does WJPC Printing make playing cards for others, but they have also developed their own branded playing cards. After receiving many requests to produce their own brand of cards,they launched their own range of playing cards, unsurprisingly called WJPC Playing Cards. These are similar to a standard deck, but redrawn and redesigned.

Standard decks

In making this self-branded product line of playing cards, WJPC Printing took a traditional playing card design that was in the public domain, but redrew all the faces.

For the card backs, they came up with a symmetrical design that uses a tree as focal point. The thinking behind this is that this tree design reminds them of their roots and values. Playing cards are made of paper, which in turn originates from trees, so that makes trees an essential source for playing cards. The tree also reflects WJPC Printing's personal commitment to be a responsible paper product manufacturer and print company, and their company encourages the use of recycling wherever possible.

The Impressions series

While the WJPC Printing branded decks are very inexpensive and look fairly ordinary, it is their range of WJPC Printing decks that shows their willingness to innovate. These decks introduce a new concept to playing cards, because they use special printing techniques to add a sense of actual touch to the artwork.

Basically this involves adding a secondary printing process, in which they apply a layer of polymer to create a raised glossy effect on the card faces. As a result the cards have all the characteristics of a regular deck, but in addition they have a glossy and raised surface that stands out visibly and can be noticeably felt.