Playing Card Materials
Playing Card Raw Material Selection
In the field of professional brand customization, choosing the right raw materials is crucial. KOMAI company knows this well and brings you a series of professional and high-quality supporting materials.
Weight and Gravity: Our compounding materials are measured in GSM (grams per square meter) and are available in a variety of weight options, such as 300gsm, 310gsm, 330gsm and 350gsm. The lighter the fit, the easier it is to shuffle and splice cards; while the heavier the fit, the higher the gravity and durability.
Surface Texture: We offer two main textures for you to choose from – Smooth and Countertop. The surface, as the mainstream choice in the market, can perfectly display colors and make shuffling more endless; while the countertop texture imparts lightness and softness, providing you with an unparalleled shuffling experience.
Glossy and Matte: In addition, our supporting raw materials are also divided into two types: glossy and matte. Glossy surfaces are bright and eye-catching, suitable for practicing rich colors and details, while matte surfaces are more subtle and soft, adding quite a bit of character and flavor to your actual plaque.
Professional Recommendation: In order to meet the needs of different customers, KOMAI company specially recommends the following supporting raw materials. These raw materials have been strictly screened to ensure the best choice for your personalized brand customization.
KOMAI allows personalized cards to focus on quality and entertainment in details. The main sources of customized cards we recommend include the following:
S28 Promotional Blue Core
- Weight: 280g/m2
- Core: blue core
- Texture: Smooth
S30 standard smooth blue core
- Weight: 300g/m2
- Core: blue core
- Texture: Smooth
Blue core paper is the most popular cardstock choice on the market, popular for its low cost, good memory, and excellent flexibility.
It can effectively control light penetration and provide a comfortable visual experience. At KOMAI Company, we are often used to customize playing cards to meet various budgets and quantity needs, especially suitable for areas such as game design, advertising promotions, and wedding gifts.
Blue core paper allows you to increase the number of cards without increasing costs, and there is no minimum order limit, allowing for more flexible customization. Choose KOMAI’s blue core paper to make your playing card customization easier and more cost-effective.
S30 Smooth Black Core
- Weight: 300g/m2
- Core: black core
- Texture: Smooth
S31 smooth black core
- Weight: 310 g/m²
- Core: black core
- Texture: Smooth
S33 super smooth black core
- Weight: 330g/m²
- Core: black core
- Texture: Smooth
Their use of Black Core technology not only enhances the opacity of the card, but also maintains a superior smooth touch. At the same time, by increasing the weight of the card, its hardness and texture are significantly improved.
This card is particularly suitable for situations where frequent use is required or where integrity is emphasized, such as casinos, magic shows, high-end gift giving, and premium gaming experiences. Its excellent durability and noble temperament perfectly satisfy users’ dual pursuit of quality and integrity.
L30 linen air black core [min.250]
- Weight: 300g/m2
- Core: black core
- Texture: Linen Air
L31 linen air black core [min.250]
- Weight: 310 g/m²
- Core: black core
- Texture: Linen Air
L33 linen air black core [min.1000]
- Weight: 330 g/m²
- Core: black core
- Texture: Linen Air
This material is preferred for top-tier products and offers excellent visual contrast, resulting in clear, detailed and high-gloss graphics. At the same time, they combine excellent hardness, smoothness and confidentiality, effectively preventing cards from bending, abrasion and translucency, ensuring excellent quality at all times during handling.
They are popular in the fields of high-end gift playing cards, casino playing cards, playing cards, tarot cards and oracle card printing, etc. They are the best choice for those who pursue ultimate quality and unique charm.
A30 standard art paper
- Weight: 300g/m2
- Core: white core or coreless
- Texture: Smooth
A35 premium art paper
- Weight: 350g/m2
- Core: white core or coreless
- Texture: Smooth
A40 thick art paper
- Weight: 400g/m2
- Core: white core or coreless
- Texture: Smooth
This material is based on high-quality white cardstock and is coated with a special white chemical material, giving it extreme smoothness, high whiteness, and excellent ink absorption and inking properties.
This material is very suitable for applications such as game cards, tarot cards, prophecy cards, and learning cards. Its stable feel can bring users a comfortable experience. However, due to its characteristics, it is not suitable for use in situations such as casino playing cards where durability and wear resistance are important.
In short, this card, with its unique texture and excellent performance, brings excellent printing effects and user experience to various applications.
P10 plastic white [minimum 500]
- color: White
- Thickness: 0.3mm/0.32mm/0.35mm
- Texture: smooth/fine sand/coarse sand
P10 plastic black [minimum 500]
- Colour: Black
- Thickness: 0.3mm
- Texture: smooth/fine sand/coarse sand
We provide a variety of plastic cards, covering different surface textures such as smooth, fine sand, coarse sand, as well as white and black for you to choose from. These cards are all made of 100% high-quality PVC (polyvinyl chloride), ensuring no pungent odor and safe and harmless to the human body.
These cards are designed and manufactured for durability and adaptability to handle harsh environments. Not only are they highly waterproof, they are also extremely flexible, maintaining the original shape, color and fluidity of the cards even after prolonged exposure to moisture, frequent shuffling, cutting and various other operations.
In particular, this plastic card has become the first choice of top poker players and game card players because of its absolutely silky smooth operation. Our minimum order quantity is 500 pairs to meet your various customization needs. Choose us to take your gaming experience to the next level!
H35 laser paper
H35 laser paper, also called holographic paper, is made of laser film combined with a variety of special papers. Its pattern designs are unique and diverse, including plain surface, straight grained light beams, twill light beams, horizontal striped light beams and special-shaped patterns, etc. At the same time, the colors can be customized according to the specific needs of customers.
In terms of paper selection, we provide a variety of high-quality special papers such as gray paper, white paper, coated paper, etc., with weights ranging from 85 grams to 475 grams, to meet different printing needs, including ordinary ink printing, UV Printing and screen printing etc.
It is worth mentioning that all our holographic papers have passed SGS testing and comply with international standards such as ROSH, 7P, and REACH 30 to ensure product quality and safety.
Playing card box material type
White cardboard card stock
- Weight:250/275/300/400g/m2
- color: White
- Texture: smooth/linen
- Suitable for: storage box/window storage box
The two textures, smooth and linen, mainly describe the texture of the box surface. Among them, “smooth” means that the surface has no texture and presents a standard finish, which is usually favored by customers who do not have high requirements for details. Relatively speaking, “linen” texture is more popular in fields such as game card boxes and tarot card boxes. That’s because the linen texture not only gives packaging a more professional look, but it also does an excellent job of keeping colors vibrant and protecting against scratches and scuffs.
Combination paper specifications:
- Weight selection: 800/1200/1500gsm gray cardboard with 128/157gsm coated paper
- Surface texture: Smooth or linen air texture
- Application scenarios: Suitable for the production of lids and bottom boxes, drawer boxes, magnetic boxes, etc.
For boxes that need to withstand high pressure, we specially choose extra thick gray cardboard as the inner layer to ensure excellent pressure resistance, thereby effectively protecting the built-in cards from damage. In order to meet the needs of rich color expression and special technology, we cover the surface of gray cardboard with coated paper, which not only ensures the beauty and fineness of the printing effect, but also improves the overall texture. Additionally, you can choose between a smooth or linen textured finish, depending on your preference and needs.
Hard plastic material
- Raw materials: POF/BOPP
- Thickness range: 0.016～0.025mm
- Applicable scenarios: shrink packaging, cello packaging, etc.
We use high-quality plastic materials to ensure non-toxic and odorless, while meeting your different needs in terms of stability, gloss and transparency. To enhance the user experience, you can choose to add thumb cutouts or hinges to make opening the box more convenient.
This hard plastic material is especially recommended for various application scenarios such as trading cards, game cards, baseball cards, basketball cards, and volleyball cards.
SPTE tin plated iron sheet
- Raw materials: low carbon steel plate + tin plating
- Thickness range: 0.23～0.28mm
- Applicable scenarios: tin-plated iron lid bottom box, tin-plated iron window box, tin-plated iron hinge box, etc.
SPTE is a cold-rolled low-carbon sheet steel coated on both sides with commercially pure tin. Tin’s primary role is to prevent corrosion and rust, while steel plate provides strength and formability. This combination makes SPTE highly corrosion-resistant, non-toxic, strong and ductile.
Tin plated iron boxes are favored by customers such as personalized game cards, personalized flashcards, personalized trading cards, personalized Pokémon cards, and more.
Soft plastic material
- Raw materials: POF/BOPP
- Thickness range: 0.016～0.025mm
- Applicable scenarios: shrink packaging, cello packaging, etc.
BOPP (biaxially oriented polypropylene film) is a thin, flexible film material. Special sealing layers and various surface treatments can enhance their performance and enhance the product’s appeal.
POF (polyolefin shrink film) is a strong, biaxially oriented multi-layer film used primarily for durable, tough packaging. It has excellent optical properties, sealing and shrinkability. Both materials are non-toxic, odorless, and highly transparent.
Whether it is BOPP or POF, they are widely used in the packaging field, especially in scenarios such as shrink packaging and cello packaging, showing their unique advantages.
Velvet cloth (single side)
- Raw materials: cotton velveteen/chemical fiber velvet
- Thickness: 130~150g/piece
- Applicable scenarios: Tarot card velvet bag, Oracle velvet bag, etc.
Our velvet bags are mainly made of single-sided cotton velveteen or single-sided chemical fiber velvet. Both materials are high-end fabrics, covered with dense pile on the surface, with excellent wear resistance and thick feel.
The main difference between cotton velveteen and synthetic velvet is color and feel. Cotton velveteen is relatively dull in color and feels harder and drier; while chemical fiber velvet is brighter in color and soft and smooth to the touch. You can choose according to your preferences and needs.
Whether it is cotton velveteen or chemical fiber velvet, they all show excellent quality and durability when making velvet bags, providing high-quality protection for your tarot cards, oracles and other items.
Booklet paper material types
C2S coated paper
- Weight options: 128gsm/157gsm/300gsm
- Color options: white
- Surface texture: smooth
- Fit: folding booklets/binding booklet covers
C2S, the full name of “has coated two sides”, refers to that both sides of the coated paper are coated to achieve a smoother and more delicate printing effect. This material is widely used in the front and back covers of color folded or bound booklets that require high printing quality. Its excellent printing performance and elegant appearance make C2S coated paper an ideal choice for producing high-end brochures.
Matte art paper
- Weight: 100gsm
- color: White
- Texture: Smooth
- Fit: Folding booklets/binding inner pages of booklets
Matte art paper is characterized by its lower brightness and delicate printing texture, and its unique delicacy can also be felt in the hand. Generally, matte art paper is thinner, whiter, and less prone to deformation than coated paper. When your printed content contains a large amount of text, we recommend using matte art paper as it can produce a clearer, more detailed printing effect. Matte art paper is an ideal choice for producing high-quality brochures, whether folded or bound, showing its unique charm and texture.
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Let our team of professionals bring your personalized playing cards, tarot decks or table game cards to life. Here, your imagination is almost limitless and the customization possibilities are endless.
If you are eager to learn more about our customized services, please feel free to contact us. We eagerly look forward to working with you to realize your creative vision.