Three weeks ago, I put in quote requests for a game with Cartamundi, Ludofact, and Panda. They each said it would take two weeks to generate a quote. Without going into detail, Ludofact and Panda both apologize for being late, and still don't have a quote for me. Cartamundi never bothered to run the quote, and isn't interested in doing so for a print volume of under 5,000 units.
Is there a fourth printer who produces quality wares that I'm missing?
It all depends on what your bits are. You might try calling SUPERIOR POD. They do all my cards [except for EXPRESS LINE - but that was a one-time shot]. And they recently expanded into boxes. They'll do a minimum of 3 decks - is that small enough? :-)
Just sayin'
For only 1000 you can try www.spielmaterial.de too.
But normally they are more expensive than the bigger companies, if it is for more than 500 copies.
Thanks for the tip! I've used Spielmateriel.de when prototyping earlier games. I hadn't realized they also do whole games.
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Heh. Well, it certainly makes them someone to look into for prototype copies.
I've been asking the printers for quotes in batches of one, two, and five thousand.