Daniel Schneider

Polyantha Back Design Update

Added 2021-01-31 16:49:16 +0000 UTC

On Friday I received this message from USPCC:

Hi Daniel!

Prepress was working on your deck but they brough up something on the back cards I didn’t think of.

When we put the back card artwork on press we have what we call “press gain” meaning that how you have the back card fading off to white before the cut line actually won’t happen. There will be grey to the edge of the card due to press gain in the black ink. This will show punch variance terribly so our production team will not approve this back card artwork as is.

We need you to start the fade at the inner most dotted line and then be done with the fade completely by the outermost dotted line.

Can you revise and send back to me?

Thank you!

To be honest, I still didn't fully understand the problem but it took me around seven hours to update the files until USPCC were happy.

In the image you see the old version on the left and the new version on the right. I know it's a bit of a joke that those seven hours of work aren't really visible.

In the image below you can see the differences a bit better. The card doesn't fade out to white anymore. I really made a borderless design out of it and the roses start to fade out earlier.

For my signature deck - the Daniel Schneider Playing Cards - I desiged a new Queen of Diamonds. Can you imagine my face when I realized that I forgot to add the new Queen to the deck? It's not just one different card for me so that - in this moment at least - this mistake took away all the joy that I had for the deck.

I'm thinking about adding her to the Polyanthas now. But I also feel a bit bad since I don't simply want to replace the original Polyantha Queen of Diamonds. Struggle is real.