How to design for BRPro / Sunfly (1 Viewer)

[Cannister]

I have ordered a custom set of poker chips for a card game that I'm looking to upgrade to ceramics. The previous set is the composite stock from chiplab.com for a card game that looks like this:

I want to take the design and translate it to custom ceramics (full face design is fine - I dont' necessarily need the edge spots on the face as I don't want to have to pay the cost for aligning the edge spots. I am happy to change the colors slightly as well. I believe I just want 39mm poker chips.

From what I understand BRPro or Sunfly are likely going to be the easiest way for me to get quality results. I've poked around on their websites though and I don't really understand how I'd go about designing and ordering the set. Are there any tutorials here for doing that?

Thanks to anyone who can help.

 

[Cannister]

Oh - one thing that is fairly important - most of these chips have different images on the front vs the back of the chip. I need the printer to be able to accomidate that. Thanks!

 

[TheLemursReturn]

For BRPro, you just need to make graphics in a program like Adobe (Illustrator for vectors, Photoshop for bitmaps). Or use free software like Inkscape for vectors or GIMP for bitmaps.

Presumably you'll want the graphics to be 39mm circles. Then wide rectangles for the edges. They can easily handle different front/back graphics.

If you don't want to learn such software, you can always hire a designer here. I'm one of them and you can see some of my work here.

After you order, you email them the graphic files. They're very responsive and easy to work with and helpful if something is not quite right. They can also provide design services for a fee.

I've not worked with Sunfly but I have to imagine the process is nearly identical.

 

[allforcharity]

.ai format art helps

You can design your two faces to not require edge spot alignment.

 

[RoadRash]

I prefer using vector files because they scale better. I use Adobe Illustrator (but it's very expensive for a hobbyist or a one-time use type of thing). Inkscape is still free I believe or you can try Affinity Designer (which is half off right now and a very good software). I usually just set up two circles over a bar. The circles represent the faces and the bar represents the rolling edge. I try to keep any text that's on the rolling edge away from the top and bottom just to be safe. Set that up for each denomination and send the artwork over to the printer of your choice. They will get in touch if they need anything or you can let them take care of the details for best results. I used to design for ChipCo and BR Pro from 2004 to about 2013 or so (whenever ChipCo went under and BRPro sold to ABC). It just got to be too expensive for me after that, so I quit doing it, except for forum members (on Chiptalk back then). I'll try to attach a pic to illustrate it. Something simple like this will get you moving in the right direction.

 

[RoadRash]

This Affinity suite of softwares is relatively young, but it is very powerful in what it can do, and there is no subscription. You buy it once and have it forever. it's half-off until December 10.

if you want to get into chip design. or graphic design in general, this will help you get started at a much better price than the Adobe products (which require a monthly subscription and internet connection to even use them). I'm stuck with Adobe because of my profession, but if I was new to it all, I'd start with this set of tools instead.

$35 each for Affinity Designer (Illustrator), Affinity Photo (Photoshop) and Affinity Publisher (InDesign) or
$83 for all 3 in a bundled suite.

Check their website affinity.serif.com to see what these softwares can do and see if they are what you're looking for.

I'm no affiliate for them and I have no stake in it. I have used Designer and it is very cool, but I have almost 25+ years of experience using Adobe products, so it is much faster for me to work in those than to learn a new software.

 

[Chris Manzoni]

I have ordered custom ceramic buttons off of PR pro poker, and I just used the chip lab designer itself and then a screenshot I of the design. It’s definitely large enough that it looks great in the final product. Keep it simple.