ASOTVI Review of The Original Poker Chip Customizer

What is it? A poker chip labeling system, which includes design software on CD, 700 labels, 300 poker chips, two decks of cards, a dealer token, 5 dice, a label centering guide, all in a very nice metal, locking carrying case.

A set of nice poker chips (clay, not plastic) can easily run $50 or more. Having them professionally customized with a logo or other art can cost hundreds of dollars. This system gives you everything you need, including a very nice metal carrying case, for around $60.

The chips themselves are top-of-the line, clay-composite, heavy, and imprinted with dice figures, in five colors (white, red, green, blue, and black). The set is augmented with two decks of cards, and a set of five dice (red translucent with white dots).

The labeling kit works very similar to any CD labeling kit you may have ever used. The kit comes with a software CD that installs the design program. The design program itself is actually a fairly sophisticated piece of software, with a myriad of features, options and capabilities. It offers some simple wizards for quick production, or with a little patience to explore and learn the program, you can pretty much have any image design you can imagine. It isn’t as complicated as Adobe Photoshop, but very feature rich.

You can choose to create your poker chip labels from a large library of samples included with the software, in a variety of colors and styles, or from many templates for just about any occasion or scenario. We chose to customize our evaluation set of chips with the ASOTVI logo.

The design program allowed us to select our graphic image and resize it to our needs, as well as add other text, in our case our website URL and company name. After a bit of trial and error and experimentation we came up with a design we liked and it was time to print.

The first time you print your labels you’ll need to calibrate your printer, and the software is prepared for this. You print out a test page and adjust the calibration settings until you get a clean page where all the printed labels line up with the label stickers. Once that’s achieved, you print your labels, peel and stick.

Please note that these are white, paper labels, photo-quality, similar to many of the photo-quality labels you might be familiar with from an office supply store; therefore, we’d caution you to avoid getting your finished chips wet after you’re done, as standard ink from an inkjet printer can potentially smudge or bleed if it gets wet. If you’re concerned about that possibility at all (drinks can spill at poker parties!), we’d suggest applying some kind of clear sealant on them, or transparent sticker, if you can find one of an appropriate size.

The customizer kit comes with a centering guide to ensure you get your labels perfectly centered on each chip. The labels themselves are 15/16ths of an inch in diameter each. The set comes with enough to do both sides of the 300 chips included with the set, with 100 labels to spare (in case you make a mistake). Each of the ten pages of labels included holds 70 labels (ten rows of 7). The vendor offers additional labels and chips if needed – see their website for details.

So whether it’s for poker night with friends, a company event, a fund-raiser, a special gift, or just for fun, this product was found to be top quality and produces an excellent and highly custom result.