Cards for your own game as an A4 sheet to print on card stock, with cut marks and an optional back – and a printed holder that keeps the deck upright on the table.
Two materials, one tool: the cards belong on paper, the furniture around them belongs on the print bed.
This generator does two things that belong together and are made differently. The cards themselves come out as an A4 sheet you print on a normal printer – on card stock, cut along the marks, sleeved if you want them to last. The holder is an STL: a rack that keeps a deck upright on the table so a hand does not slide apart.
Printing playing cards in filament is possible and pointless: they would be 0.6 mm thick, too stiff to shuffle and too heavy to hold. Paper is the right material; the printer's job is the furniture around it.
One card per line: title, text, value, separated by a vertical bar. Empty lines are skipped, missing fields stay empty. Set copies per card if you need five of the same – a deck is usually not fifty different cards but ten cards five times over.
The back can carry its own text, printed as a second sheet. Print fronts, turn the stack, print backs. Check the alignment on one sheet before you commit twenty.
| Thin frame | A line around each card. Easiest to cut along with a guillotine, and it hides small alignment errors. |
| Corner marks only | Cleaner look, but you need a ruler and a steady hand. |
| None | For cards that will be die-cut or that do not need to be exact. |
Slot width follows from card thickness times cards per slot, plus clearance. Sleeved cards are roughly twice as thick as bare ones – measure the deck you actually play with rather than trusting a number from a catalogue.
Print flat, no supports. PETG is worth it here: a holder lives on a table, gets knocked, and PLA corners chip.
This page carries the essentials. The detailed sheet is in German: documentation. Every control here is a number, a slider or a choice, and the German page uses the same order.