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Post by killmeforprizes on May 19, 2009 5:51:55 GMT -9
Anyone attempted to edit the figures to accommodate double sided printing to avoid the folding and gluing? I realize it would affect the overall strength of the model - but was curious none the less.
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Post by kane on May 19, 2009 6:19:48 GMT -9
I think the main issue with that is that most home quality printers are not accurate enough to line them up properly. I know its a rare day when something I print is perfectly straight on the page.
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Post by Slick on May 19, 2009 6:24:29 GMT -9
I agree with Kane. Even when I went to a print shop and tried to get them done there was a small issue with alignment that was very hard to correct. It was a VERY small misalignment but alas when your dealing with figures .5mm-1mm is a huge margin for error and can ultimately ruin the finish. If you can get it to work though post your process here I think there would be a bunch of us interested in the process!
Nate
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Post by Aestelon on May 19, 2009 6:25:13 GMT -9
My thoughts exactly. I've tried doing double-sided stuff before, but it's impossible to guarantee that everything will line up. You can do broad areas of texture, as I did with my dice tower to print on inside walls, but you need to allow plenty of overlap space for error. Something fine like a mini would be nigh-impossible to match up.
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Post by onemonkeybeau on May 19, 2009 6:45:03 GMT -9
I have not tried this...
I'd imagine though that getting the two sides to line up would be a nightmare.
And you're right... the overall thinness of the fig would be a problem.
I'd be interested in seeing a fig done like this though!
onemonkeybeau
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Post by squirmydad on May 19, 2009 8:26:48 GMT -9
About the only way this would be feasible is to double the thickness of the outlines, and not worry too much about the alignment.
The best commercial printers can do is about 1mm alignment front to back, so doing it on single sheet printers would be even more of a challenge. JIM
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Post by godofrandomness on May 21, 2009 0:49:12 GMT -9
The only way to reliably do this is get ahold of a printer used by a CCG maker, as they would be the ones closest to perfecting this, adn even they get tons of misaligns aftrer a while.
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Post by brynbrenainn on May 22, 2009 6:23:08 GMT -9
The thickness of the paper can be compensated by using thicker paper. I know, that is so obvious it is almost silly to mention, but I did do a small experiment with a bunch of DP greek mins a while ago. They turned out quite good. Granted, I got my wife to use the pro-printer at her job... Here at home it would be a waste of paper. You could laminate the paper just for the strenth as well.
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Post by Christopher Roe on May 22, 2009 12:08:20 GMT -9
I use double sided printing for booklets, cards, and other stuff like that.
I find that my Canon photo printer and Brother laser printer do a pretty good job if I duplex them manually, but there's almost always a +-1mm or so misalignment. I get around that by using an 0.125" bleed on full page backgrounds and whatnot. If I don't need full page backgrounds, then I don't worry about it much.
For models and figures, I don't think the results would be great unless you got lucky, so I'd say you're better off printing single-sided and folding things over like normal.
-Mel
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Post by moloch on Jun 11, 2009 1:51:55 GMT -9
Tthe only way I see this happening is when they make a printer that can print both sides at the same time (thus only feeding it through once). This way there is no alignment problem.
P.S. Let me know when they economically produce one. ;D
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Post by josedominguez on Jun 11, 2009 8:34:00 GMT -9
Look at the internals of your printer...... it's got plastic cogs and gears, not exactly high precision machining.
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