Board printing suggestions?

Thanks a lot. I'll test out resizing and see how it looks a bit smaller. If the box is 15" wide, is 14.5" too large for the graphic, or do you think the board's bleed will be under .25" per side?

Thanks,
aloneone

Great job on the artwork!

Are you looking to make a few of these games (for yourself and friends or to send to publishers) or enough to sell? For a shorter run (as few as one), it's really not that hard to make your own set-up box in whatever size you need. here's the link.

As for the board, you can go a bunch of different ways. You could even go quad-fold if you want. It would be close to the size of the Alea boxes (think Puerto Rico): 8.5 x 12.0625. Your board would be roughly 12.875 x 8.0625.

As for mounting the artwork, you can go a few different ways depending on the box size that you want. You can do a fully wrapped board where the backing wraps onto the front to cover the edges of the board. In that case, you would go with a bleed between the edge of the artwork and the edge of the board. Anywhere from 1/8" to 1/4" would work fine.

Alternatively, you could do an exposed edge board. To do that, print the artwork larger than the board with crop marks intact. Affix to the board and then trim everything (artwork+board) to the finished artwork dimensions. That way you could make the board smaller if you had to without reducing the dimensions of the artwork. Doing an exposed edge board works best when you use illustration board (or some other kind of board with a black or colored core) so that the exposed edge doesn't look like chipboard...but the difference is minimal.