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Post by wabbitwampage on Mar 26, 2009 8:01:41 GMT -9
First test in printing 15mm skeletons (a glaive battalion of 40 figs) after some modifications with Gimshop: The result is not very fine cause of driver or resizing problem with the soft (loss of resolution) and made me thought the 15mm scaling not a good idea at all... but here comes the cavalry with the classical "4pagesin1" scaling artefact of adobe reader and look at the difference i think they are pretty good : I have a HP Deskjet 845C; I have printed the "A letter"'s mini using the CUPS/Gutenprint (Gimp) driver. I have printed the "D letter"'s mini using the HP driver. Wabbitwampage
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Post by old squirmydad on Mar 26, 2009 11:14:39 GMT -9
Hiya, I found a good way to avoid the loss of resolution was to double the dpi of the page, then shrink the image to 50% size. Looks a lot cleaner. The easy way of course is to do the Adobe 4/page printing method, but that wastes a lot of paper when you're really only printing one page of miniatures.
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Post by onemonkeybeau on Mar 26, 2009 12:11:29 GMT -9
Yup, that's what I've been dong lately... upping the DPI to 300, resizing at 50% and then printing.
Works like a charm!
onemonkeybeau
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Post by luckyjoe on Mar 26, 2009 16:25:27 GMT -9
I like the way your skeletons came out. Nice job.
Luckyjoe
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Post by wabbitwampage on Mar 27, 2009 2:42:46 GMT -9
Hiya, I found a good way to avoid the loss of resolution was to double the dpi of the page, then shrink the image to 50% size. Looks a lot cleaner. The easy way of course is to do the Adobe 4/page printing method, but that wastes a lot of paper when you're really only printing one page of miniatures. With my old deskjet, I just turn over the sheet and place it back into the tray for the next print, again and again... so I print effectively 4x15mm scaled pages on 1 sheet of paper and don't waste paper.
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Post by wabbitwampage on Mar 27, 2009 2:50:48 GMT -9
Yup, that's what I've been dong lately... upping the DPI to 300, resizing at 50% and then printing. Works like a charm! onemonkeybeau I think so, if you don't have any print problems, which is not my case. I have an ImacG3 and run Gimpshop on it (with the X11.app) The scaling with Gimpshop is OK and looks good, but when printing there's bug with the resolution I mean, that gives bad results. So till I change my computer I have to use the adobe 4/1 method! Wabbitwampage
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Post by wabbitwampage on Mar 27, 2009 2:57:06 GMT -9
I like the way your skeletons came out. Nice job. Luckyjoe Thanks Luckyjoe, soon I will post photos of the complete skeleton 15mm cavalry regiment (laminated and based). Wabbitwampage
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