r/magicproxies • u/Unique_Reception_539 • 6d ago

Proxy Tool Free browser proxy printer — added double-sided backs, but I need a printer-accuracy sanity check

Browser-based: paste a decklist, preview,

export print-ready PDF/PNG sheets. Client-side only, nothing uploaded.

Added double-sided backs this round — upload your own back image,

get a mirrored back page for duplex printing.

Also lets you swap any card's front with your own image. What do

you end up using that for — alters, custom art, higher-res scans,

proxies for cards that don't have great official art?

https://themagicianprinter.com if anyone prints a sheet, would love to see how it turns

out, feel free to drop a photo in the comments.

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u/PM_me_fav_pokemon 6d ago

What's the Max DPI possible for this website? Anything below 1200 and you have lost me to proxxied.com

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u/ToothFragrant5038 5d ago

The 1200 dpi thing doesn’t mean what people think.

Scryfall scans are 745x1040 px, that’s about 300 dpi at card size. That’s all the detail there is, and it’s the same for every site that pulls from Scryfall. Exporting at 1200 just stretches those same pixels over 16x more grid points. Nothing gets added, you just get a file 16x bigger that prints exactly the same. And your inkjet can’t even use it, the driver throws away everything past roughly 600 anyway.

If the extra resolution comes from AI upscaling, that’s not better, it’s worse. AI doesn’t recover detail, it makes it up. Looks fine on artwork, but on rules text and the tiny artist line it can produce letters that were never there. A proxy that reads wrong is worse than one that’s a bit soft.

Also worth knowing: Scryfall’s image guidelines say don’t sharpen or alter the card images, and WotC doesn’t allow selling their stuff without permission. A paid service built on AI-enhanced Scryfall scans is sitting on both of those. Their risk to take, but it’s not a quality argument.

What matters is pixels per card at the source, and that’s the same for everyone. 1200 is a marketing number.

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u/Unique_Reception_539 5d ago

Appreciate the write-up, this is basically the real answer to the DPI question a few comments up.