We were able to talk on Friday with the printing and die-cutting company about their schedule for Total War. We should be receiving laser proofs of the counter sheets next week (sixteen sheets of 280 counters or 3,480 counters) as well as the TW box art. These proofs are not ink color correct (which are too expensive) but will allow us to check that the counter content is complete and the transfer has not knocked out any part of a counter. Once we receive these, we should need less than three days to proof and approve them.
From that point, the printers will guarantee the printing will take no more than 42 days. They will then box and ship the order back to us. This should take no more than 5 days to arrive in Denver. We will need 3 to 4 days to unload, organize and begin to collate the game material and package orders. Based on these projections, the game should begin to mail during the first week in May. We will post progress as each step finishes. Each day we will pack and mail as many orders as possible until all of the nearly 800 orders are shipped.
