"How to print 2 sided chits and markers at home?" Topic
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forwardmarchstudios | 10 Aug 2016 1:46 p.m. PST |
Hi, Title says it all. Does anyone know how to get a printer to knock these out? Is there a trick in Word or on macs that will let me create two-sided tokes, so that one side might say "Beans" and the other side has the number of Beans? thanks! |
Russ Lockwood | 10 Aug 2016 2:02 p.m. PST |
Depends on your printer and how thick you want the tokens to be. Some printers have a 'straight' feed that doesn't bend the paper around rollers. Most home printers will not accept more than a certain thickness. Likely you'll have to send it through twice. Higher end commercial office printer/copiers are able to print on both sides of a page, in essence printing and then sending the same paper through again. The alternative is to print two sheets of markers and spray glue or roll glue onto cardboard (making sure the correct backs go to the correct fronts) and then cut them out (scissors or better yet, heavy-duty paper trimmer). Several of my buddies have done just that on thin cardboard. Looks good, but takes time to square everything up during the glue/cutting phase. |
alex757 | 10 Aug 2016 2:22 p.m. PST |
here is the best resource I have found on the net: link |
forwardmarchstudios | 10 Aug 2016 2:25 p.m. PST |
I was thinking of printing them and then laminating them. I may have to do the run-twice through printer thing. alex757: that guy is very serious about his chits!! |
John Armatys | 10 Aug 2016 2:46 p.m. PST |
If you are laminating them could you print the two sides of the tokens next to each other, cut them out, then fold them before laminating? |
John Secker | 10 Aug 2016 2:59 p.m. PST |
I do this all the time – print one side then the other, laminate and cut out. Works very well. Be careful about laminating two sheets together (as you will be doing if you fold then laminate). It sounds like an easier way of getting two-sided counters, but in my experience the two sheets have a tendancy to separate, especially when you cut them up. |
forwardmarchstudios | 10 Aug 2016 3:00 p.m. PST |
JA- well, if that works I will be he best way to do it, by far. I wonder if I can do an entire row of chits, cut them out, fold them and then run the entire row through at one time? They'd only be laminated along two edges and technically open at two of them. It might work though. I have my printer at home, and my laminator, so I'll be experimenting with your particular idea tonight. If that works it'll be the easiest way I can see of doing it. JS- Good advice! I was worried about that myself (I was typing at the same time you were.). I'm going to try out both methods tonight. I need some custom chits for a game I'm working on… |
Tgerritsen | 10 Aug 2016 3:45 p.m. PST |
Process one- as JA said, put the images next to each other, laminate them, and then fold them with glue in the middle My process is manual, but creates great chits. I print the front and the back on sticker paper. I buy comic book backs from the comic book store (these are cardboard inserts to keep your comics rigid- they are cheap as hell for 100 backs) and then put the stickers on the comic book backs and cut them out. You get professional looking chits that way and they are nicely thick. |
Extra Crispy | 10 Aug 2016 4:13 p.m. PST |
I use 3mm thick plywood bases. I create a paper label that has a 3mm spine so I can "wrap" the paper around the wooden base, affixing with slightly thinned white glue. Pretty easy, looks great and once given a spray of lacquer very, very durable. |
Early morning writer | 10 Aug 2016 6:37 p.m. PST |
Curious, most curious. Ideas floating about in busy brain. |
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