ebay - cardamatic

[Paul Koning]

>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Jennings <tomj at wps.com> writes:

 Tom> On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, William Donzelli wrote:
 >>> cards. Likely a local print shop would have trouble making good
 >>> consistent cards from that really unique card stock IBM used.
 >>> It's not very ordinary, and a stack of fresh cards is like a
 >>> solid block, absolutely smooth!
 >> And halfway decent printshop should have a chopper that could
 >> handle it. The one I used to use could get to a thousandth
 >> accurately and consistently, as long as the blade was sharp.

 Tom> For manually read mark/sense cards I doubt there's any problem
 Tom> with locally made, but IBMs high-speed cards are pretty exacting
 Tom> things. I doubt a local print shop could make them that a
 Tom> high-speed punch would like.

I'm not sure if you are confusing "decent print shop" with the corner
copy shop.  They are rather different.

A decent print shop can print on your choice of hundreds of paper
types, bound if you like, trimmed accurately.  Trimming a tall stack
of card stock to a small fraction of an inch is no big deal.  Take a
look at a box of business cards.

A quick search yields a card stock spec of 6.7 mil +/- one half; that
fits a vague memory of 7 mil.  That's basically the spec for 60 pound
cover stock.  So I'd expect that a stack of Mohawk Superfine Smooth 60
pound cover, trimmed to spec, will do just fine -- as would any number
of other products from any number of paper mills.

   paul