Sorcery TCG News - December 2nd, 2024: Print Quality Upgrade

[@mattstrott753]

Well explained! I'm a graphic designer who's worked in print for 35+ years and you explain it better than I could have. 👍🏻

[@wizardsden666]

Well that's good to hear lol. I've been doing DTP stuff for a decade, so interesting to see all the knowledge to be used on Sorcery cards lol.

[@neatherlingz_tcg7370]

This is like stepping into a different world. It's nice to see that Erik's curiosa is taking steps to improve the product. This makes me wonder what all the steps are both from the printer and EC to make an as close to perfect product.

[@wizardsden666]

They are taking incremental steps to make a better product for sure. I'm pretty sure the printers are doing their best to reproduce the proofs they provided to EC, and EC is choosing what the best quality can be provided from this printer within the possible options. I hope they stick with FM screening though as its my personal preference when it comes to very wide color gamuts.

[@Dstinct]

@@wizardsden666 I hope so too. While I too prefer first wave beta as the slight fade gives it a nostalgic feel, the colors in AL look great. Much better than Beta wave 2 from a saturation level.

[@lholo]

Awesome video as always!! Love the under the hood look at the art. Keep the context coming!

[@Bladewing]

Thank you Haine, for your high quality videos! Always very interesting to learn something new, noone else is talking about that in detail, like you do. All the best and cheers!

[@jdj-sapphire]

Great video. Thanks again for all your contributions to the game of Sorcery.

[@lannydragonlover]

I pulled a couple of foils and I was surprised by how much the foil changed the way the cards looked to me! Knowing that there's a different printing method that affects the colors explains that - really informative video :)

[@wizardsden666]

Well now you know something a little extra about foils ;)

[@urbano999]

As always, very clear. Thank you! (interesting difference between foil and non foil AL cards!)

[@hunterislightning]

Thanks for sharing your efforts with the community! I always enjoy watching these videos that dive deep and analyze the card printing and quality specifics.

[@wizardsden666]

It's always fun for me to look through the microscope!

[@gudtimes6363]

Super interesting. Thanks for that

[@seanscollection]

Really interesting! Thanks :)

[@CardboardProphet]

I prefer the alpha print quality, it has character.

[@wizardsden666]

It does seem different from rest of the prints, I agree. The bigger dot's give it a distinct feel.

[@leptonsoup337]

Thanks, Haine!

[@whatishappening8851]

LOVE YOUR VIDEOS!

[@GoblinGrenade]

Awesome video.

[@Dstinct]

From my experience printing foil comic covers, your hunch about the foil vs nonfoil is correct. Foil substrate takes longer to dry, so they would have to slow down the presses to prevent smears and smudges. I don't know the specific dry time differences between the AM and FM on foil, but since most of my jobs use AM, I know they use separate printers for the foil covers vs the regular stock that they can leave calibrated for those jobs, so it could be a matter of their foil presses not having the capability of running FM jobs properly, or FM foil jobs are so rare that its not worth it to them to overhaul their machines for FM just to have to reset them back for AM jobs.

[@wizardsden666]

Thanks for the input. Yeah that does make sense. I'm actually not aware of any major printer that does FM screens on foil (maybe as a custom but not openly advertised), so it might be some technology limitation.

[@metazuul1103]

Cool video 🔎

[@emmet3690]

Very interesting

[@LucaRovaldi]

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