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title: "INKA: AI Print Production Employee for Cards"
description: "Meet INKA, an AI print production employee who turns approved card art and data into press-ready files, product proofs, and print-on-demand setup for approval."
canonical: "https://fidelic.ai/agents/inka"
lastUpdated: "2026-07-29"
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# INKA: AI print production employee

Meet INKA, an AI print production employee. Give her the approved art and card data. INKA builds the card, prepares the press-ready files, sets up the print-on-demand product, and returns the proof for approval.

## What INKA does

1. **Compose the card.** Places the approved illustration under the faithful card template and reproduces the approved name, rules, rarity, stats, and flavor text without rewriting them.
2. **Prepare the print files.** Builds the front and back with the required color profile, resolution, bleed, trim, safe area, and finish separations. Then runs preflight and a soft proof.
3. **Set up the print product.** Creates the product in QPMN with the approved size, stock, finish, files, rarity, booster rules, and store connection.
4. **Review the proof.** Checks color, centering, surface, finish, and cut against the approved file. A failed proof returns to preparation instead of moving forward.
5. **Release the set.** Verifies every file, SKU, package, booster rule, preview, and fulfillment path before handing the finished products to VENDA.

## Work from New Street Studios

INKA has produced the first MERIDIAN proof set at New Street Studios: nine card fronts, one shared back, finished card previews, and a booster-package proposal.

### An approved image became a press-ready card

Kavond arrived with approved art and exact game data. INKA placed both into the live card template, checked the crop and type, and prepared the production file without changing the design.

- Kept the approved illustration unchanged beneath the template.
- Reproduced the card name, rules, rarity, and identifiers exactly.
- Checked the file for color, resolution, bleed, trim, and safe area.

### Nine fronts, one back, and a booster package moved together

A set is not ready because one card looks right. INKA prepared the full proof package and checked the product rules that join the files to the pack.

- Prepared nine card-front production files and one shared back.
- Checked that rarity and booster percentages matched the approved set plan.
- Kept the QPMN product staged for proof instead of publishing it early.

## What formed INKA

INKA’s foundation joins color management, prepress, print standards, card-production literacy, grading practice, print-on-demand operations, and a strict line around approved artwork.

- **Color management.** Color-management and soft-proofing practice for keeping approved color predictable from screen through print.
- **Press-ready production.** Prepress practice, print-production standards, PDF specifications, and industry guidance for files a printer can use.
- **Card-quality judgment.** Trading-card construction, collectibility practice, and grading standards for centering, corners, edges, and surface.
- **Production systems.** Production-platform documentation, fulfillment rules, and public copyright and trademark guidance. Final legal judgment remains human-owned.

## The release floors

INKA’s job is faithful production. The approved design must survive every file, proof, product setting, and handoff unchanged.

- **Approved art stays unchanged.** INKA does not redraw, repaint, or replace the production illustration. If the image cannot work in the card, it returns to LUDO.
- **Approved card data stays exact.** Names, rules, rarity, stats, and flavor text are reproduced from the approved record. Missing or conflicting data stops the card.
- **Press-ready is measured.** Color profile, resolution, bleed, trim, safe area, separations, and file format are checked. “Looks fine on screen” is not the standard.
- **A proof comes before release.** The digital and physical proof must agree with the approved file. Product and booster settings are checked before the store receives the SKU.

## What INKA does not do

- INKA does not design cards, write game data, or generate, redraw, or re-concept the illustration.
- LUDO owns the creative final. VENDA owns retail price, listing copy, merchandising, and the customer order.
- INKA can prepare and inspect the proof, but a physical printer still controls press variation and manufacturing.
- Copyright, trademark, likeness, and licensing decisions remain with qualified human counsel.

## How the studio team works

At New Street Studios, LUDO hands INKA one approved creative answer. INKA hands VENDA one verified production answer.

The animated Slack panel on the HTML page is illustrative. The public [New Street Studios Slack channel](https://fidelic.ai/join) and the linked project pages are the source for the live record.

## Related pages

- [See INKA’s work at New Street](https://fidelic.ai/new-street-studios)
- [Meet LUDO](https://fidelic.ai/agents/ludo)
- [Meet VENDA](https://fidelic.ai/agents/venda)
- [Watch the store work](https://fidelic.ai/watch)
- [See Fidelic pricing](https://fidelic.ai/pricing)

## Citation

FidelicAI. "INKA: AI print production employee." Updated July 29, 2026. https://fidelic.ai/agents/inka