Printing Guides and Downloads

Print and Play

• Lightweight Letter and A4 PDFs [bleed margins, 300 dpi] – recommended for home printing
• Letter and A4 PDFs [bleed margins, 800 dpi]
• Card-size PDFs [bleed margins, 800 dpi CMYK, U.S. Web Coated (SWOP) v2]
• RGB Image Archives [bleed margins, 800 dpi]
• CMYK Image Archives [bleed margins, 800 dpi CMYK, U.S. Web Coated (SWOP) v2]

When printing a PDF, make sure that you set “Actual size” and “Flip on short edge”.

Other Downloads

• Individual Preview Images [low quality, ~170 dpi]
• Individual Images [300 dpi]
• Card-size Rules PDFs [800 dpi]
• Story Insert PDFs
• Set Icons

MakePlayingCards

• Recommended for US residents
• ALeP card backs
• Takes some work to fit in “perfect-fit” sleeves

MakePlayingCards (MPC) prints high-quality cards, but they will not print official FFG card backs. Instead, ALeP cards printed through MPC will feature our own custom-designed ALeP card backs. This means that if you are one who uses clear sleeves, or you don’t use sleeves at all, and you want to print your cards through MPC, you may have to come up with some way to handle the different card backs. We have outlined some possible solutions here.

If you are using standard card sleeves, then the following is of no concern, but “perfect-fit” sleevers should be aware that MPC cards are slightly wider than FFG cards, and can take a little bit of work to get them to fit in the sleeve. However, once you get them in, the sleeve tends to stretch a little bit and everything works fine.

If you have decided to go with MPC to print your cards, follow instructions on this page:

• MakePlayingCards Direct Links

We also have a printing manual and all of the card images available if you would like to customize your MPC order:

• Printing guide for MakePlayingCards
• MakePlayingCards Image Archives [bleed margins, 800 dpi]

MBPrint

• Recommended for EU/UK residents
• Official-looking card backs
• Too bendy compared to official FFG cards
• Takes some work to fit in “perfect-fit” sleeves

MBPrint is based in Poland and prints high-quality cards, including official-looking card backs.

If you are using standard card sleeves, then the following is of no concern, but “perfect-fit” sleevers should be aware that MBPrint cards are slightly wider than FFG cards, and can take a little bit of work to get them to fit in the sleeve. However, once you get them in, the sleeve tends to stretch a little bit and everything works fine. Please note that MPC cards described above have the same issue.

If you have decided to go with MBPrint to print your cards, use this direct link:

https://sklep.mbprint.pl/en/a-long-extended-party/

We also have a printing manual and all of the card images available if you would like to customize your MBPrint order:

• Printing guide for MBPrint
• MBPrint Image Archives [bleed margins, 800 dpi CMYK, U.S. Web Coated (SWOP) v2] – the same as “CMYK Image Archives” above

Comparing MakePlayingCards and MBPrint

Below is a comparison table of various printing options (please note that the price of a custom MBPrint order may be higher).

Other Printers

After trying out several printing services, the two above were the only ones we thought were worth official support. However, you are welcome to try out other services. For what it’s worth, here is a quick summary of a couple other printers we tried:

• DriveThruCards: This was going to be a low-cost option for printing cards with official-looking card backs and decent quality. However, after printing our test batch, DTC has cracked down and decided to no longer print ALeP cards, regardless of the card backs. So if you try to print ALeP cards with DTC, don’t be surprised to see your order get declined.
• ArtsCow: This is another low-cost option, and one that will print official-looking backs. However, we found their print quality and consistency to be quite poor, and have decided to not officially support this option.