Early the next morning, Li Er hung up a travel sign in the company, and went to the printing factory in the suburbs with Gao Qiao.

You can see that this printing house has a long history. The style of the factory building is still from the sixties and seventies of the last century, and the wall skin has peeled off, revealing a gray cement base.

The green space next to it also seems to have been untended for a long time, and some of the transplanted plants have withered and yellowed, leaving only green weeds growing tenaciously.

This time I came to the printing factory, in addition to looking at their equipment conditions, there are some things to be finalized, such as printing schedule, rubber plate making, trial printing of some samples and so on.

For the sake of 200,000 yuan, Li Er's old classmates warmly received him and Gao Qiao. Now is the off-season for printing, and their factory is close to the imperial capital, and the labor cost is expensive, if it is not state-owned, it will not be able to hold on.

If you don't turn it on, the machine will lose money there. But where to find business, the amount is not suitable for a small amount, and the water and electricity bills for the light rubber board materials cannot be recovered, but the publishing houses of people with a large amount have gone to other printing houses.

If it weren't for the fact that the land didn't belong to an individual, I'm afraid the boss would have sold the land and moved the factory elsewhere. The land in the imperial capital is much more valuable than the printing house itself.

Gao Qiao brought all the electronic files of the cards with him. With the development of technology, a USB flash drive can carry all the manuscripts with you.

Now the printing house is using laser plate making, and soon the rubber plate is ready. More than 100 cards were densely packed on a large sheet, marked with laser positioning points, and then cut down with the machine's own blade. Just be good on the machine, and it's unlikely that it will be crooked.

But how can you sell cards cut like this? If you can see everything, you will definitely buy rarer cards, and the other cards will not sell.

In the end, Li Er and Gao Qiao decided to make it in the form of card packs, with ten cards randomly placed in each card pack. The printing factory also has an automatic packaging machine, as long as the shape of the card bag is designed, you can make such a product.

In addition, considering that players who don't understand the rules, some manuals, venue posters and other miscellaneous items are also printed incidentally, and some funds have to be deducted.

In this way, what could have been printed 1 million copies can only be printed 800,000.

300,000 of them are cards that have been printed before. Gao Qiao plans to have the remaining 500,000 cards and wait for him to design new cards and reproduce them. He's scheduled to add a hundred new cards so that he can play even more.

Some of the cards produced are sold in the manga café, and the rest are temporarily stored in the garage of Zài's Gaoqiao studio. Because the production task is carried out in two batches, the garage should also not be stressed.

The garage is naturally no more insect-proof and moisture-proof than a professional warehouse, and if it can't be sold quickly, Gao Qiao and Li Er will have to lose money. This is also the reason why Gao Qiao does not want Li Er to count the loan as an investment.

Since the original manuscripts of the three episodes have been completed, Gao Qiao has plenty of time to create new cards. If you don't draw too much card art, you can make about 20 cards a day with a high hand speed, and 100 cards a week is enough.

The only thing to worry about is not being able to sell. One is that they have very few sales channels, only one in the middle of nowhere. The second is to wait for the card to be printed, and the craze may have passed. It's hard to say how many people will be willing to pay for game cards by then.

However, they printed cards not to make money, but to allow more people to play the game of creating their own zào. If it weren't for the persuasion of Xia Yu, the proprietress of Manca, Gao Qiao would still want to sell at cost price. Several people discussed it and finally set the price at ten yuan per pack, that is, one dollar per card.

They were also worried that the quality of the mechanical printing would not be good, so Li Er's old classmate specially turned on the machine and printed a thousand sheets to see the situation first.

Looking at the cards he created, which became finished products under the printing of the machine, and were separated by the mechanical arm and packed into a small bag, Gao Qiao's mood was a little complicated.

Holding a pack of freshly baked card holders, Gao Qiao opened it like a child.

"There's a blue-eyed white dragon!" he said, holding the blue-eyed white dragon that still smelled of ink, looking left and right.

"You're lucky. Li Er looked at the ten one-star to two-star ordinary monster and trap magic cards in his hand and smiled.

"The quality is really good, but it's a bit expensive. Gao Qiao sighed and stuffed the blue-eyed white dragon back into the card bag.

Li Er's classmate stepped forward and explained, "The printing house near Shangjing is the cheapest here. Printing factories in other places are cheaper, but with the addition of freight, it is not only this price. ”

"I know. Gao Qiao nodded, gritted his teeth and patted the board: "Then print it!"

The contract was signed, and the factory was opened. Hearing the roar of the mechanical start, Gao Qiao's heart ached. What is printed is his money!

Li Er actually felt quite painful, after all, he also participated in it. And it won't be able to get back in a short period of time. He is not a local tyrant, and the 30,000 yuan is saved from between his teeth. After throwing it in, I guess I had to tighten my belt for a while.

He made up his mind to catch the subway back to work earlier, and he could still catch lunch. Although the company's working meals don't taste very good, the price is not expensive after all. Eat a little more at noon, and just don't eat at night.

Gao Qiao was also busy drawing new cards, so the two parted ways at the subway station.

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As soon as Li Er returned to the office, he saw that the originally snow-white wall was covered with colorful posters, on which were the round figure with cat ears and a question mark on his head. Meow Mystery Jun held a small flag, and wrote big characters in color on the top of his head: "The new work award has begun to solicit manuscripts!"

"Li Er, you're finally back!Come and help move the materials!" Zhang Huaishan shouted loudly.

Your whole being is blocked by the file box, how did you see me. Are you a Lv5 powerhouse?

"What kind of information is this, it still looks very new, is this something to be dealt with?" Li Er stepped forward and took a stack of file boxes from Zhang Huaishan's hand and asked.

"Didn't you start computerized office, and the people above didn't know what to smoke, so they had to enter the files of the new awards from previous years into the computer. It's really a word from the leader, and the subordinates broke their legs,......," Zhang Huaishan complained.

Li Er helped him put it on the desk, and Zhang Huaishan hurriedly held the mountain of the file box, for fear that it would fall down.

"These are all works that participated in the new work award last year, and I think only the top three will be published in magazines, and I haven't seen many of them. Li Er opened a box of archives to be copied and scanned, looked at the original manuscript inside, and said.

"There's a lot more, I'm afraid I can't finish it alone. How about helping the handle?"

"Okay. ”

Lear divided a portion of the task and placed it on his desk. Then quickly open an archive box, take the original to the scanner to scan, and follow the notes on it, record the information and the year of the competition. After the file is recorded in electronic form, the original manuscript is put into the file box and sealed once, and the task is completed.

Li Er did this very easily, almost visibly with the naked eye, and the file boxes were processed one by one.

After a while, Zhang Huaishan ran over and asked, "How's the progress?"

"It's done in five minutes. Li Er replied as he tapped the keyboard at the speed of light.

"Yours is yours! After that, these tasks will be handed over to you!" Zhang Huaishan said with a grin.

"Hey, do you want to exhaust me!" After typing the last period, Lear said, "Alright, it's done." The electronic manuscript was also scanned, and according to the ranking from front to back, different years were also divided into different text folders. Is that okay?"

"Of course. Great talent, have you worked hard, do you want to drink tea?" Zhang Huaishan diligently picked up the kettle and poured it into Li Er's cup.

"It's all working, and you still call me my nickname when I was in college......"

"What's the matter, I think it's good. ”

"It's just a little embarrassing. Li Er took a sip of water and leaned back in his chair. "By the way, have you ever gotten any inside information about this registration?"

"I'm so well-informed that I look like an intelligence monger. I don't know anyone from the audit company, but Aunt Sweeping once mentioned to me that this time there are three works that are very close to each other, unlike before, they were all the first in the big score advantage of "Adventure King". ”

"That's ......" Li Er thought as he clenched his glass.

"I've heard from others that the review and editing team of the new work award is about to start the selection, and the four of us may choose one from you and Zou Gu. ”

"Oh, is there such a thing?" said Lear, a little surprised.

"Originally, this place was specially awarded to us because some works entered the top ten. Zhang Huaishan arched his hand to Tiansheng, "The emperor's grace is vast, and he is not grateful." ”

"Get out!" Lear kicked with a gesturing gesture, "...... Wait, doesn't that mean that there were no places in the four groups before? How miserable is our group?"

"No, in the past, the editor-in-chief participated alone. But it's also the editor-in-chief. Zhang Huaishan scratched his chin.

"Is the editor-in-chief a must-have, okay...... The audit team, maybe we can find a lot of good seedlings, it's really a waste to someone like Zou Gu. ”

"You want to go in?"

"Of course, now we are still focusing on accumulating work experience, doing more work, broadening our horizons, why don't we want to enter. However, I was so choked on the editor-in-chief at the last meeting, and I guess it was hanging. Li Er drained the water from the glass in one gulp.

"That's right...... Where are you going?"

"Toilet, together?"

"you. Zhang Huaishan gestured with a middle finger.