Trading Card Photo Station · Fan Fests, Drafts, Trade Shows, Retail & Sponsor Activations · Nationwide

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Your guest taps the screen, smiles, and walks away with a double-sided 2.5 by 3.5 inch card: their face on the front, their stats on the back and your sponsor’s logo on both.

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A Trading Card Photo Station is a staffed photo booth that photographs each guest, places the portrait in a sports-card design and prints a double-sided 2.5 by 3.5 inch trading card on site.

CEG Interactive’s custom trading card photo booth runs two ways from the same 8 by 12 foot station. The classic card shoots the guest against a green screen and drops them into a stadium, a court or your key art. The AI card sends the same portrait through an image model that dresses the guest in the uniform, puts a bat, a stick or a steering wheel in their hands and lights them like a press photo. Both print on the same card stock, and both carry the guest’s name, number and position. It is the station CEG builds for Topps and Fanatics at the Fanatics Collectibles stores in Europe.

A Trading Card Photo Station starts at $6,000 for up to three hours, and across 208 post-event surveys and more than 200 five-star Google reviews CEG Interactive averages 4.8 out of 5.

WHAT EVERY TRADING CARD INCLUDES

A Front And A Back

The front and back of a vintage-style baseball card: a player portrait numbered 17, and a stat table with a sponsor panel

The portrait fills the front. The back carries the stat block: name, team, position, the date and the event, on a fixed grid so every card reads like it came out of a pack.

The Guest’s Own Details

A phone showing a pre-registration form with first name, number, position, mobile number and a choice of AI card or classic card

Guests enter a name, a jersey number and a position. Those fields print on the card and land in your lead list beside the email or mobile number the card was sent to.

Your Brand On The Card

Close-up of a card back sponsor panel reading PRESENTED BY YOUR SPONSOR with a 15 percent off offer and a QR code

We design the card to your brand guide: team colors, event mark, sponsor panel. The sponsor panel on the back is its own piece of inventory.

TRADING CARD STATION AT A GLANCE

2.5 × 3.5 inStandard card size, double-sided

8 × 12 ftBackdrop, camera, lights and print table

40 to 60 guests / hrClassic card, details typed at the screen

30 to 60 secondsAI card, shutter to finished card

Half the timePer guest, with QR pre-registration

One 20A outletStandard wall power

A few weeksTo design and approve the card art

NationwideFlight-cased; crew sized to your guest count

The card size is the point. At 2.5 by 3.5 inches it fits the sleeves, top loaders and binder pages collectors already own, which is why a trading card gets kept when a 4 by 6 print gets left on the bar.

CLASSIC TRADING CARD OR AI TRADING CARD

Two Cards From One Station
	Classic Card	AI Card
What the guest sees	Themselves, as they came, in front of your stadium or key art	Themselves in the uniform, bat in hand, lit like a press photo
How it is made	Green-screen portrait keyed into a fixed background	One portrait restyled by an image model to a tested prompt
Props and wardrobe	Real gloves, bats, helmets and jerseys to hold and wear	None needed; the model adds the kit and the pose
Speed	40 to 60 guests an hour	30 to 60 seconds to render each card
What you approve first	Card design and the background plate	Card design plus sample cards on a range of faces
Best for	Family fan fests, retail, rooms where the photo must be literal	Sales kickoffs, incentive trips, conferences, guests in business dress

Before: The Booth Photo

A smiling man in a cream blazer and blue shirt photographed against a black sequin backdrop

One plain portrait in whatever the guest wore to the meeting.

After: The AI Card

The same man on a vintage-style baseball card in a sand and maroon uniform, number 17, holding a bat in an old ballpark

The same face in a full flannel uniform at an old ballpark, framed, named and numbered.

Pick by who is in the line and what the card is for. A fan fest with children and a league partner takes the classic card: the photo is literal and nothing about the guest is changed. A sales kickoff or an incentive dinner takes the AI card, because nobody arrives in a jersey and the model puts them in one. Many programs run both from one station and let the guest choose. For a restyled portrait, a motion clip or a robot-drawn sketch instead of a card, see every AI activation we run.

THE TRADING CARD LOOKBOOK

Sixty card designs, each shown on a different guest: classic and AI versions, men and women, across baseball, football, basketball, hockey, soccer, motorsport and golf, plus tennis, rodeo and snow sports. Filter by sport or by theme.

A cream embossed baseball card of a man in a green and copper uniform, number 5, resting a bat on his shoulder under an arched sunburst — Baseball Cards

An anime-style game card of a man in a purple sleeveless gi with taped fists raised, over white speed lines, with strike, guard and spirit scores — Fantasy & Comic Cards

A basketball card of a woman in a charcoal and coral uniform, number 14, rising for a jump shot on a glittering court with coral light beams — Basketball Cards

An orange and cream cassette-cover card of a man in a suede jacket playing an acoustic guitar on a small amp, with a five-song track list — Festival & Music Cards

A holographic football card of a woman in a blue and white raglan shirt and blue ballcap standing on a stadium field in front of yellow goalposts — Football Cards

A holographic esports card of a laughing man in a green and white jersey with headphones around his neck, sitting in a gaming chair against a green crystal burst — Streamer & Esports Cards

A cream and rust hockey card of a man in a cream sweater, number 21, kneeling on the ice with his stick and helmet inside an oval frame — Hockey Cards

A black and gold company card under a Q3 MVP banner: a woman in a black blazer with her arms crossed, with deals closed, quota and NPS figures below — Company Cards

A holographic soccer card of a woman in a denim jacket and navy ballcap standing on a stadium pitch, with a FAN FEST 2026 tag and a crest of a ball in a laurel — Soccer Cards

A violet motorsport card of a man in a purple race suit, number 25, with his helmet under his arm inside a halftone arch — Motorsport Cards

A gold-framed golf card of a woman in a navy polo and visor holding the finish of an iron shot at golden hour — Golf Cards

A maroon and cream draft-night card of a man in a navy suit and ballcap holding up a maroon number 1 jersey, captioned ROUND 1, PICK 1 — More Sports Cards

A plum and gold baseball card of a red-haired woman in a plum uniform, number 6, holding a bat behind her head on a sunlit infield — Baseball Cards

A holographic fantasy game card of a woman in a green quarter-zip and cream ballcap holding a glowing pink orb in an illustrated wizard's library, with spell text below — Fantasy & Comic Cards

A holographic basketball card of a man in a green and copper uniform, number 13, holding a ball on his hip on an arena court under the backboard — Basketball Cards

A cassette-cover card of a laughing woman in a satin bomber jacket holding a microphone in front of a stadium crowd, with a five-song track list — Festival & Music Cards

A gold-framed football card of a woman in a slate and pink uniform, number 18, drawing back to pass and pointing downfield — Football Cards

A black and gold esports card of a red-haired woman in a white ringer T-shirt and red ballcap with headphones around her neck on an expo floor lit by stage beams — Streamer & Esports Cards

An ice-blue hockey card of a woman in a navy and magenta uniform, number 22, carrying the puck up the rink, with a swatch of jersey fabric set into the card — Hockey Cards

A cream, black and gold company card of a man in a charcoal polo with a gold chevron badge, tagged ROOKIE and CLASS OF 2026 — Company Cards

A gold soccer card of a man in a green quarter-zip and cream ballcap standing in a stadium, framed inside the outline of a soccer ball — Soccer Cards

A black and gold motorsport card of a woman in a maroon striped rugby shirt and ballcap standing in a paddock in front of an open-wheel race car — Motorsport Cards

A holographic golf card of a woman in a blue polo, white skirt and visor finishing a drive on a tree-lined fairway — Golf Cards

A navy and cream tennis card of a woman in tennis whites and a visor swinging a racket on a grass court, with a swatch of white fabric set into the card — More Sports Cards

A rainbow-foil baseball card of a woman in a slate and pink uniform, number 4, with a bat cocked over her shoulder against a pink-tinted ballpark — Baseball Cards

A comic-style card of a man in a green and copper superhero suit and cape with his arms crossed, cut out over green halftone dots — Fantasy & Comic Cards

Basketball Cards

A gold and rainbow-foil festival card of a DJ in a blue satin jacket with headphones around her neck, one hand on the decks, with BPM, stage and set time below — Festival & Music Cards

An illustrated football card of a man in a slate and pink uniform, number 17, holding his helmet in front of a stylized city skyline — Football Cards

A violet circuit-pattern esports card of a man in a blue and white raglan shirt and blue ballcap with headphones around his neck, framed in a silver hexagon on an expo stage — Streamer & Esports Cards

A hockey card of a red-haired woman in a black and mint uniform, number 12, skating with the puck on her stick against a burst of mint and violet light — Hockey Cards

A holographic company card of a woman in a plum blazer waving as she walks across a conference stage, with a TOP REP tag — Company Cards

A black and gold soccer card of a man in a charcoal kit, number 7, with one foot on the ball in a stadium under gold sunbeams — Soccer Cards

Motorsport Cards

A cream and maroon golf card of a man in a maroon polo and cap with a driver over his shoulder beside a green and its flag — Golf Cards

A rust and cream rodeo card of a man in a maroon striped rugby shirt and ballcap standing in front of a rodeo arena and grandstand at sunset — More Sports Cards

Baseball Cards

A painted fantasy game card of a woman in a teal jacket with a small red dragon on her shoulder, casting a swirl of light among floating islands — Fantasy & Comic Cards

A cream and black basketball card of a woman in a black and gold uniform, number 12, leaping for a one-handed layup, cut out over pale sunbeams — Basketball Cards

A black festival card with a neon mint arch around a woman in a ballcap, orange T-shirt and jeans at a night festival with laser beams over the crowd — Festival & Music Cards

A football card of a man in a black hoodie, orange T-shirt and black ballcap standing at midfield in a full stadium, with a green nameplate — Football Cards

Streamer & Esports Cards

A violet hockey card of a smiling man in a purple and silver sweater, number 23, holding his stick upright with his helmet under one arm — Hockey Cards

A blue and green holographic company card of a woman in a blue and white raglan shirt and blue ballcap at a company picnic with a striped tent behind her, tagged FIELD DAY — Company Cards

A shield-framed soccer card of a goalkeeper in a black and mint kit, number 1, holding a ball in front of a floodlit goal — Soccer Cards

A sparkle motorsport card of a woman in a gray and pink race suit and helmet, visor up, gripping the wheel in a cockpit framed by a tire — Motorsport Cards

A black and gold action-sports card of a woman in a gray and pink jacket, helmet and goggles carving on a snowboard down a mountain run — More Sports Cards

A sparkle-bordered baseball card of a woman in a navy and magenta uniform finishing a pitch, cut out over a pale illustrated stadium — Baseball Cards

An illustrated sci-fi game card of a red-haired woman in a teal flight suit with a helmet under her arm in front of a starfighter, with thrust, aim and hull scores — Fantasy & Comic Cards

A concert-poster card reading ONE NIGHT ONLY: a man in a cowboy hat and rust western shirt in a field in front of a barn stage, with MAIN STAGE and the date below — Festival & Music Cards

A game-style esports card of a woman in a headset and a red and blue jersey leaning over her mouse at a gaming rig, with actions per minute, viewers and win rate below — Streamer & Esports Cards

A black arched company card of a man in a light blue shirt, orange tie and lanyard in a plant-filled atrium, tagged CLASS OF '26 — Company Cards

A cream soccer card of a woman in a plum and lime kit, number 10, striking a ball, cut out over a pale pitch with a tactics-board sketch — Soccer Cards

A vintage-style baseball card of a smiling man in a sand and maroon uniform, number 17, holding a bat in an old wooden ballpark — Baseball Cards

A black and brass steampunk card of a red-haired woman in goggles and a leather vest tightening a bolt on a brass mechanical owl — Fantasy & Comic Cards

A two-color concert-poster card reading ONE NIGHT ONLY: a man in a cream blazer in front of a curtained stage with an upright bass and a drum kit — Festival & Music Cards

An ornate tarot-style fantasy card of a man in plate armor holding a sword, titled Knight of the Ember Gate, with might, armor and valor scores — Fantasy & Comic Cards

A rainbow-foil illustrated card of a man in a rainbow-striped shirt waving from a parade float with confetti and a cheering crowd behind him — Festival & Music Cards

A green tarot-style fantasy card of a man in a yellow polo and cream ballcap in a sunlit forest with a hawk perched beside him, titled Ranger of the Oakenwood — Fantasy & Comic Cards

A tarot-style festival card titled The Sun: a man tipping a wide-brimmed hat in front of palm trees and a Ferris wheel at golden hour — Festival & Music Cards

HOW THE TRADING CARD LINE MOVES

Capture, transform, deliver: a photograph, a card rendered in 30 to 60 seconds, and a print plus a digital copy by text or email. How long does each guest take? It depends on where the typing happens. With on-screen entry, the guest types a name, a number and a position at the station, poses, and approves the card: 40 to 60 guests an hour. With QR pre-registration, guests scan a code while they wait and enter the same details on their own phone, along with where to send the digital copy. Pre-registration cuts the time per guest in half, and the brand manager watches registrations, captures and shares arrive on a live analytics dashboard.

NAME, NUMBER AND COLORS ON EVERY TRADING CARD

Three answers personalize an AI trading card: the guest’s name, a jersey number and their favorite team colors. All three feed the image itself, the same way they feed the card frame. Type COLE, 17, maroon and sand, and the card comes back with a maroon nameplate and a sand number disc around a portrait of the guest in a sand-and-maroon uniform with 17 on the chest.

Try the station’s touchscreen below. It is a working sample of the guest survey: nothing you type is saved or sent.

The sample asks four things: a first name, a jersey number, which sport card, and where to email it. At an event the same screens carry whatever the card needs, such as the two team-color swatches, a position or a badge scan. Three guests in a row, three different answers, three different cards:

Maroon And Sand, 17

A baseball card named COLE with a maroon nameplate: a man in a sand and maroon uniform with 17 on the chest

The colors land on the frame, the nameplate and the jersey. The number lands on the chest and the card back.

Green And Copper, 5

A baseball card named WYATT with a green nameplate: a man in a green and copper uniform with 5 on the chest

Same station, same minute, next guest in line: a different kit and a different card.

Slate And Pink, 4

A rainbow-foil baseball card named CLAIRE with a pink border: a woman in a slate and pink uniform with 4 on the chest

Guests pick colors, never logos, so a fan can wear the colors they love without a license in sight.

For a club or a sponsor that wants every card in one kit, the color field is switched off and the brand guide decides.

TRADING CARD FINISHES

Digital Only

A phone showing a text message with a finished baseball card attached and a note that the animated card is on the way

The card arrives by text or email, sized for a story or a post. No printer, the smallest footprint, the most UGC per hour.

Bare Card

A single holographic basketball card lying on a light surface

Printed on both sides, cut to size and handed over at the print table.

Sleeved Card

A hockey card inside a clear plastic sleeve that is open at the top

Slipped into a clear sleeve so it survives the pocket, the flight and the desk drawer.

Sealed Acrylic Case

A holographic blue and green card named AVA MARTIN sealed in a clear acrylic case, closed across the top with a blue SPORTS TEAM sticker

A 35pt acrylic case closed with a tamper sticker in your brand, the way a graded card is sealed. Add an acrylic stand and it goes on a shelf.

One more finish belongs to CEG alone: a full stack of the guest’s own card, printed in minutes on proprietary production equipment we built in house. A sales team trades them across the ballroom like business cards with a batting average on the back, and the trading is the icebreaker.

THE TRADING CARD IN HAND AND ON THE PHONE

Every guest leaves with both: the printed card they hold up for the group photo, and a digital card that reaches their phone before they are back at their seat.

The Physical Trading Card

Six conference guests in a hotel lobby, each holding up a personalized card sealed in a clear acrylic case on a small acrylic display stand

Printed on both sides and sealed in 35pt acrylic, with the sticker across the top carrying the team or sponsor mark. The optional acrylic stand turns it into a desk piece that is still there a year later.

The Digital Trading Card

The still card arrives by text or email, sized for a story or a post. The animated trading card adds a short looping clip of the card turning in its case, rendered from the finished card, and a second version brings the portrait to life: the pitcher winds up, the striker shoots, the driver takes the corner.

TRADING CARDS FOR TEAMS AND LEAGUES

A club, a league or a licensed partner needs every mark exactly right, and on an AI card that is the hard part. Our prompts and card frames hold the crest, the kit, the sponsor patch and the league mark in place from the first card of the shift to the last, because the marks are composited to your artwork and never left to the model to draw. Send the brand guide and the sponsor roster, and you approve a full sample set before doors.

TRADING CARDS WITHOUT A LICENSE

A company picnic or a sponsor lounge does not need a league’s permission to print a great sports card. Team colors are free to use, so half of our unlicensed designs run on color alone: your navy and gold on a pinstripe kit, your logo where the team mark would sit. The other half add an invented crest that says the sport without naming a club, such as a baseball over two crossed bats, a shield with a hockey stick, or a checkered flag. No real team names, logos or player likenesses appear.

Every sports card in the lookbook above was made this way: invented crests, color pairs that match no real club, and a YOUR LOGO panel on three of them where a sponsor’s mark drops in.

SPONSOR INVENTORY AROUND THE TRADING CARD

The card back is the first sponsor placement and the one that goes home. Around it, the activation space carries more: a custom printed backdrop, a branded pop-up tent for outdoor footprints, a decal wrap on the booth itself, the screens in the pre-registration flow, and the tamper sticker on every acrylic case. Each placement can be sold to a different sponsor.

CUSTOM TRADING CARD USE CASES

A trading card is a designed object with data on it, which is why brand and experiential teams book it for:

Fan fests, drafts and championship-week brand activations for leagues, clubs and their sponsors
Experiential retail and in-store activations, where the card is the souvenir of the visit
Trade show booths: a lead-capture form that guests line up to fill in
Sales kickoffs and President’s Club trips, with quota stats on the back and a stack to trade
New-hire “rookie class” cards for onboarding and recruiting fairs
Fantasy, comic and streamer cards for gaming and fan conventions
Product launches: a character card with the product’s specs where the batting average would be

The calendar these cards are built around is easy to name. Sports cards belong at fan fests around the World Series, the Super Bowl, a World Cup summer, an MLS or NCAA championship weekend and a Formula 1 race week. Fantasy, comic and streamer cards belong on the floor at Comic-Con, PAX West and TwitchCon. Festival cards belong in a sponsor’s footprint at Coachella, Stagecoach or EDC. CEG is not affiliated with any of these events or leagues; they are the crowds the designs were drawn for.

Whatever the use, captures, prints, shares, opt-ins and UGC posts are counted per hour, so the recap deck carries KPIs with numbers beside them.

WHERE THE TRADING CARD STATION RUNS

CEG builds the trading card stations for Topps and Fanatics inside the Fanatics Collectibles stores in London and Paris, with Munich opening in 2027. The London store’s own foot-traffic analytics count more than a million visitors a month, and guests there have made tens of thousands of custom trading cards. Fans travel to these stores from all over the world, and the card is the souvenir of the trip.

On A Conference Floor

A trade show booth with a rainbow gradient backwall reading WHAT'S YOUR SKILLS SUPERPOWER?, a white touchscreen photo booth on a stand, and a table with a card printer and finished cards in acrylic holders

At the HR Tech conference, Phenom built its booth around one question: what is your skills superpower? The station answered it. Attendees tapped the touchscreen, picked a power, and left with an AI superhero trading card of themselves, printed at the table beside the backwall and handed over in an acrylic holder.

To say the photo op was a hit is the understatement of the century. People loved it!

Paige B., Phenom

In the United States the same station works a quieter job. At a stadium buyout, the card puts every guest on the field in the home colors. On the planner’s site visit weeks earlier, a card with the planner’s own face on it is the pitch: it is the moment the ballpark stops competing with a hotel ballroom.

HOW WE ENGINEER A TRADING CARD ACTIVATION

Card art, survey fields and AI prompts are approved on sample faces weeks ahead. Every station travels with full backups of the camera, printing, production and media gear, so no single failure stops the line. On trade show and conference floors, where thousands of phones saturate Wi-Fi and cellular, we run on a hardline ethernet drop. At outdoor festivals and remote sites we bring our own Starlink. Long names, cut alignment and print color are proofed on the actual printer before the doors open.

THE CREW BEHIND THE TRADING CARDS

The crews who run the card station are the same ones who run our booths at conferences and incentive programs for Access, Cohera, Capital One and 3M.

WOW! The team went above and beyond to ensure our end client was happy.

Kimberly S.3M

CEG is always an amazing partner — already looking forward to the next event.

Molly K.Access

Always professional, accommodating, and easy to work with. Thanks, team CEG!

Caitlin C.Capital One

Peyton jumped in to find a better solution for our group and created the AR options.

Kristi W.AT&T

Peyton and the product were both amazing — everyone at our event loved it, kids to adults.

Todd B.Crayola

Seamless booking and excellent in-person service for our 300-person org-wide event.

Jessica T.Khan Academy

We hired CEG for Burlington's Leadership Summit — our Senior Vice Presidents and executives joined in.

Tyler C.Burlington

You're always on time, prepared for anything, and so creative. We love working with you!

Janette L.Kaiser Permanente

Working with CEG was a breeze — they handled the entire setup without pulling our team away.

Amber R.Copia Power

To say the photo op was a hit is the understatement of the century. People loved it!

Paige B.Phenom

Communicative, punctual, and professional — they take pride in their work.

Emily A.Crash Champions

CEG is always a dream to work with — professional, timely, and warm.

Jamie I.Aviara Resort

Everything was great and the client really loved the experience.

Arron R.Hard Rock Hotel

Everyone had a great time — the onsite staff was great!

Connie R.Acadia

Grant was great and did a super job. Thank you!

Jenny B.Cadence

An instant "wow" factor from the moment guests walked in. Highly recommend!

Angela D.Wedding

TRADING CARD STATION PRICING

Trading Card Photo Station, Up To Three Hours
Build	Rate	What it includes
Trading Card Photo Station	From $6,000	Green screen, camera and lighting, custom double-sided card design, name, number and position fields, on-site printing and cutting, digital copy by text or email, crew.	CHECK DATE
AI card, finishes, card stacks, animated card	Quoted per event	Priced by guest count, finish and how many designs you want tested. Multi-day and retail installs are scoped separately.	GET A QUOTE

Travel and freight are quoted up front for events outside Southern California.

PAIRS WELL WITH

AI Photo Booth

A guest in a flight jacket holding a helmet on an aircraft-carrier deck at golden hour

The same image model without the card frame: a catalog of looks on a studio-lit portrait. See our AI photo booths.

SEE AI PHOTO BOOTHS

Military Dog Tag Station

Four embossed stainless steel dog tags on ball chains laid out on a white surface

A second keepsake line for the same crowd: guests type their details and an embossed stainless tag comes off the machine in minutes. See our dog tag machines.

SEE DOG TAGS

AI Video Booth

One photo of the guest turned into a short branded motion clip for the screen behind the stage. See our AI video booths.

SEE AI VIDEO

Trading Card Questions, Answered

How big are the cards?

2.5 by 3.5 inches, the standard trading card size, printed on both sides. They fit sleeves, top loaders, 35pt acrylic cases and nine-pocket binder pages.

How much space and power does the station need?

8 by 12 feet and one standard 20A outlet. A digital-only build with no printer fits in less.

Can the card carry a sponsor?

Yes. The sponsor panel on the back is its own block with a logo and a call to action, and a second mark can sit on the front beside the event mark.

Does the AI card change how guests look?

It changes the clothes, the pose and the setting. The face stays the guest’s own, and you approve sample cards on a range of faces before the event.

BOOK A TRADING CARD STATION

Tell us the date, the guest count and whose logo goes on the back, and we will tell you which card fits the crowd and what it will look like before you sign.

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