Printing and Print Options
How to Print Your Deck
You do not have to print all your cards every time. The Filter features let you choose which cards are printed, and which are not. Improper use of filtering can cause some cards to be omitted from printing and exporting. Please be sure you understand filtering to ensure that you print all the cards you want printed.
Printing is the recommended way to create print-and-play decks for prototyping. If you wish to create output for uploading to print-on-demand services or for digital gaming platforms, see About Exporting.
To print your cards, use the standard Page Setup and Print commands.
You can print directly on paper, but we recommend printing to a PDF document instead. This allows you to preview the printed output before spending paper and ink, and allows you to distribute your deck to others simply by sharing the PDF file.
About Page Size and Orientation
You may select any page size and orientation by using the Page Setup and Print commands.
Multideck will print as many cards per page as will fit within the page's printable area. The printed area is centered on the page. If necessary, Multideck will rotate your card images 90° in order to fit more cards per page.
Card Outlines and Cutting Guides
You may choose from a selection of cutting guide styles (or no cutting guides at all, if you prefer).By default the Black Outlines cutting guide style is used, which prints a sharp-cornered black outline around each card. You can select a different cutting guide style for the current document by using the Print Options dialog; and you can choose different defaults for new documents by using the Preferences dialog.
Open the Print Options dialog by clicking the Print Option button in the toolbar, or by selecting the menu command File > Print Options.
The Print Options dialog
Paper Cutters
If you use a straight-edged paper cutter
to cut out your cards,
you should probably select
Exterior cutting guides.
This will print cutting guides
as close to the edge of the paper
as your printer can manage,
and will not print any cutting guides
along the edges of the cards.
You can combine this option
with any of the other
cutting guide styles.
Contrasting with the background
The default black lines may not be visible
against cards with dark backgrounds.
if some or all of your cards are dark,
select White outlines
or Black and white dashed outlines,
or use Exterior cutting guides
to avoid the need for cutting guides
along your card edges.
Avoiding outlines
Select Corner crosshairs
to avoid having any lines
along the edges of your cards;
instead, small cross-hair guides will be
printed at the card corners.
This works especially well if you plan to use
a corner-rounder on your finished cards.
Select No cutting guides if you wish to have no cutting guides at all, for example if you are printing double-sided and you don't need cutting guides on one side.
Card Spacing
By default, cards are printed close-packed on each page, so that you can cut them out with a minimal number of cuts. But you can use the Print Options dialog to specify an arbitrary spacing between cards. This is suitable for pre-perforated paper, and for double-sided printing (so that cards can be printed with a bleed area to compensate for registration inaccuracies).To use card spacing, open the Print Dialog. Select the Enable Card Spacing checkbox, then enter your desired horizontal and vertical spacing between cards. (These values are in inches by default, but you can use millimeters if you select that option in the Deck tab.)
If you do not select Enable Card Spacing your cards will be close-packed; but your spacing values will be remembered so that you can print with card spacing again just by selecting Enable Card Spacing once more.