I can hardly wait, I can hardly wait, I can hardly wait!!!!!
FYI, Game Crafter pros and cons, from an artist's standpoint: their cardstock has improved and is not, I think, the issue that it used to be. I believe that they print with wax, not with ink, which gives the cards marvelous old-fashioned look... but as a drawback, everything that they print seems to have a slight greenish tinge. So the print quality is sharper and crisper than Printer's Studio, but the colors are not as true as what PS provides.
If you want a custom printed box to go with the deck, Game Crafter is really the only way to go. PS does this, but it requires a minimum order and is prohibitively expensive, IMHO.
Also, Game Crafter, though 100 percent reliable, has been running really slooooooooowly lately, in terms of fulfilling orders. Not for impatient customers.
So -- that's my two cents.
I'm wondering who does the printing for people like U.S. Games and The Expert Playing Card Company and Lo Scarabeo. Certainly by 2017 it will be time for me to start looking at large print runs that I can sell at prices that will allow me to compete with Those Guys. The print on demand model really does work great and allow folks like us to do so much more than was ever possible before, but it doesn't allow us to sell our decks exactly cheaply.
Anyhow -- really so looking forward to this, Gabi -- love your work!!!