Games & Print Services
Games & Print Services Limited, of Canvey Island, Essex, leading producers of playing cards and card games in the UK.


Games & Print Services Limited, of Canvey Island, Essex, are leading producers of playing cards and card games in the UK. Games & Print Services offer a choice of court designs, as well as different sized indexes or pips. Traditional or Modern English court styles are available, Dutch courts or customised faces, with standard or jumbo index, two or four pips, silver or gold edges. The company is now a part of Carta Mundi.
Modern English courts

Above: early Games & Print Services cards showing 4 small bridge indexes and ‘modern’ English courts, c.1997 see more →
Traditional English courts

Above: redesigned traditional courts, special typeface for indexes. The jokers have been re-drawn and the Ace of Spades has a © symbol because of an attempted copyright infringement see more →
Above: a selection of advertising packs with standard traditional English courts and jokers as well as non-standard designs.
Games & Print Services also produce card games, tarot cards, collector cards and other gaming accessories.




Above: The Fool, The Moon, The Wheel of Fortune and The World from Russell Grant's Astrology Club Tarot, published in 1999.


Above: some examples from the extensive range of game cards produced under licence by Games & Print Services. The Monopoly game has Newcastle on Tyne street names.
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By Simon Wintle
Member since February 01, 1996
View ArticlesCurator and editor of the World of Playing Cards since 1996. He is a former committee member of the IPCS and was graphics editor of The Playing-Card journal for many years. He has lived at various times in Chile, England and Wales and is currently living in Extremadura, Spain. Simon's first limited edition pack of playing cards was a replica of a seventeenth century traditional English pack, which he produced from woodblocks and stencils.