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Post by hackbarth on Aug 30, 2013 4:35:15 GMT -9
Just sharing my cost saving technique for the cheapass gamers ot there (I know who you are, you are not alone). I opted not owning a printer for the time being, and where I live printing is a little expensive. A single A4 sheet of good grammature costs roughly 1US$ to print, an A3 sheet costs roughly 1.50US$. So my solution was to cram the most parts on a page as possible. That way I can put a Shrike, that is a 4 page PDF in only one A3 sheet. Or put 3 itoyos, 2 complete mule trains and 10 little drones on one sheet. And many more. I'm building a little Ebbles army of evil robots now, thanks to this technique.
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Post by shep on Aug 30, 2013 5:32:49 GMT -9
I can totally relate to the printing problem. Owning only a b/w laser printer myself (perfect for text, not so perfect for minis and such), I lately turned to cutting the minis from the PDFs and arranging them on a sheet size 15 x 20 cm. That's the largest size the Kodak booths in our local drug store will print. This "technique gives me 10 to 12 minis in photo quality for just below .5 €, while printing one PDF sheet on decent paper in the copy shop next door would cost .9 € ==> I save 20 cents and get a better, heavier quality...
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Post by spaceranger42 on Aug 30, 2013 8:41:53 GMT -9
I make use of the laser printers at work as often as I can though folding anything that is printed from a laser printer can give you some rough edges whenthe toner flakes a little bit.
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Post by gilius on Aug 30, 2013 8:47:04 GMT -9
Saving on printing costs was the second reason that led me to 15mm and below. The first was storage space. The amount of stuff that can fit on a page when you start resizing and rearranging is amazing...
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