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Car Cards?

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Car Cards?
Posted by Favrefan04 on Thursday, February 9, 2006 9:47 PM
Where can I find Car Cards? Is there a place online that I can find them? Has anybody tried to make their own by using a commercially available one as a model. I think as long as I could get the card stock making them wouldn't be that hard. My wife is into scrapbooking so I could probably talk her into doing it for me.
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Posted by Jetrock on Friday, February 10, 2006 4:08 AM
Micro-Mark sells a car cards set:

www.micromark.com
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Posted by Favrefan04 on Friday, February 10, 2006 3:10 PM
So there is no place I could download one or anything like that? If I could make my own, that would be great, but then again their starter set comes with a book that will further help me understand exactly how to use the system. I think I have a pretty good grasp of it anyway, but the more reinforcing I have the better.
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Posted by ereimer on Friday, February 10, 2006 6:48 PM
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, February 11, 2006 3:11 PM
Try:
http://members.aol.com/Shenware/index.html

There are two programs,
MITRAINS for car inventory and car cards
WAYBILLS for creating and printing waybills.

I'm using both with good success for the past 5-years. A sample version can be downloaded.

Good luck,
Gale
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, February 28, 2006 11:23 AM
I have used MS EXCEL to make my own car cards. The pockets were easy, just a very trials to get the correct size. The waybill portion was a bit more difficult. By printing sideways I was able to get the four turn style. The only problem was to get then printed so the fronts and backs matched. Again a few trials had this mastered on my inkjet. I added the corporate logo to the top of the car card as well. They look very proffesional, if I say so myself.

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