this is what I came up with. and from the cheap ones I found online, $99, I like mine better. but I would like a consenus.
Don't pick apart the photo, just the layout. I know her face in not in focus, but I am more worried about being able to reproduce this, and do it rapidly.
the text took the longest to produce. I printed this out on my HP printer here at the house on some Kodak 71 lbs. glossy paper. and It doesnt look bad. I have seen worse pan handled at local games on cheap office depot photo paper from those little $50 printers.
I will probably still use my normal lab that has good looking baseball type cards, but for the magazine type stuff I think I can make it on my own and then send the files to printroom.com and have them printed on crystal archive and drop ship the covers to the clients.