#492: Printing
Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast
Wizards of the Coast
4.7 • 801 Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2017
⏱️ 32 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm pulling out of the parking lot. |
| 0:02.0 | We all know what that means. |
| 0:03.5 | It's time to run to drive to work. |
| 0:06.0 | Okay, so today, so one of the challenges of, like, I'm almost to like 500 podcasts here. |
| 0:12.4 | So one of the challenges is thinking of things to talk about that I've not yet talked about. |
| 0:17.9 | So today I realize that I want to talk about printing. |
| 0:21.6 | There's a big part of making magic cards is physically making magic cards. |
| 0:28.6 | And that is, there's a whole department called Caps. |
| 0:32.6 | I know that stands for something. I'm not sure what it stands for. |
| 0:36.6 | But anyway, Caps is the people who are in charge of... |
| 0:39.3 | Basically, you know, R&D comes up with what the cards are. |
| 0:44.8 | You know, design development figures out what they do, |
| 0:48.6 | and the creative team figures out the art and the world and the flavor text and the names. |
| 0:52.9 | But basically, and then goes through editing. |
| 0:55.1 | So once it comes out of R&D, we have all the components of it. |
| 1:00.7 | You know, we are able to, but then it has to get turned into an actual physical card. |
| 1:05.9 | And that is the Caps. |
| 1:07.5 | That's what Caps does. |
| 1:08.9 | So there's a whole bunch of different parts of Caps. |
| 1:15.0 | Part of it is just laying out the card, you know, figuring out what it looks like, getting it in frames, you know, and doing all, like essentially what happens is R&D has information. |
| 1:20.2 | Here's what the card is supposed to be. Here's all the component pieces. Then they have to |
| 1:24.7 | put it together. Okay, but today's part is not, there's a lot that goes into graphic design stuff. |
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