Allthough I've never organized a full 18-player game yet, I decided to create 18 copies of each advance at once, cause it's easier to do all at the same time, and my goal is to play a game with 18 players.

PAPER AND PRINTING
I've chosen for 120grams extra white paper and my HPDeskjet 990cxi.
I bought the 39ml 3 color cartridge and a regural black cartrigde.

WHen I was done printing I had still (not much some ink left in the cartrigde. I've printed ALL trade cards (1 full set) and ALL advanced with this.

NUMBER OF SHEETS
I made a quick calcutalion. 6 printsheets double sided is one set. So, 18x6x2 is 216 full pages to print, taking 108 white pages, so I've bought a box of 200 sheets,

LAMINATING?
For my first print session (a year ago, using the previous arts) I used the laminator afterwards, and for my second print session (this year using new art, but a previous lay-out) I had it done by a print shop using thicker paper. I really didn't like this quality, especailly cause the cards would not run easily through your hands and you'd had to put your nails between each two cards to seperate them. The printshop couldn't even print straighter than me, in fact it was worse.

So, that is why I decided to print em myself, using the laminator again. I have made a good deal buying a stack of laminating sheets at a discount store. These sheet are this cheap because they're highly static electric, but one run trough the laminator takes this away.

STRAIGHT PRINTING
The trick in printing this much is to NOT order print 18 copies at at time, but to print as much as 5 (or less) at a time, checking each time wether the print marks stay at the same point. I've used a light box for this. (holding it again the light on top of a guide print will work also)

When you order you printer to print one page 18 times, the first and the last will differ very much.
I'v thrown away every print that was too off of the guide print. Eventually leading to 10-20 misprints or so, thus that's not so much.
For the trade cards I used higher standards, cause, they should all be very equal, where the advanced may vary a bit

LAMINATING ON THE FLY
While I was printing, I've chosen to laminate each perfect print immediately and put this under a heavy load to keep them straight.
After a few days of printing (cause it's boring sometimes) I ended up with a stack of 108 printed and laminated sheets.

CUTTING
It took me a few days to cut these, cause it can be very boring.

I've chosen to do it all by hand with a knife and ruler. THis is more work, but gets better results. It takes some experience this way, cause each cutline should leave a few millimeters on the paper to keep them attached. Just when cutting the crosslines the cards come loose. This waw you can keep from using full lines over your printsheet, only using cutmarkings on the edges.


STATISTICS
Here are some photos of the working process.

Civilization Advances
108 sheets
216 full printed pages (except for misprints)
864 cuts (mostly two times per cut to not slide off)
918 Civilization Advances cards


Trade cards:
16 sheets (except for misprints)
32 full printed pages
192 cuts (mostly two times per cut to not slide off)
334 Trade cards