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Title: Printing tiles Post by: PresetM on December 20, 2009, 12:32:28 pm Hello to all,
I'm new in this forum and a great lover of Carcassonne board game. So it is very overwhelming for me to see all these wounderful Carcassonne expansions. Thank you all for your great work. I would like to print out some of these expansions on adhesive label paper and stick these printouts on original HiG blank tiles. So far so good. My old b/w laser printer go bust, so I have to buy a new printer anyway. Therefore I think it is wise to buy a color printer for printing the Carcassonne expansions, right?:) My question is: What printers, guys, do you all use for printing the Carcassone expansions? Which printers a suitable for this job (laser or ink)? Which specific models can you recommend? There is another thought: all the expansion based on 300dpi (or less) graphics. Why not 600dpi? All modern printers print in 600dpi. May be this will give us a better quality of the printouts. It would be great if some guys have hints for me. Thank you in advance Title: Re: Printing tiles Post by: elmendalerenda on December 20, 2009, 05:01:13 pm I always take the expansion to a printing shop and had them printed in a laser color printer, its cheap and the quality is very good. Dont think is worth the investing on a new printer just for carc tiles. Also think laser holds better the printing and thats important if your players like to rub the tiles before placing them :)
Title: Re: Printing tiles Post by: Gwommy on December 20, 2009, 05:10:22 pm I'm not too picky about it. I use my laser jet printer and stick them to the blank tiles that I got from Chr15lynn. I think my printer is about 10 years old. Although you can easily tell the difference between one that I printed and an original, I don't think it affects the game too much since I draw the tiles out of a bag.
Title: Re: Printing tiles Post by: Scott on December 20, 2009, 06:28:41 pm I'm using the HP Color Laserjet CP1510. Toner is far superior to ink.
Title: Re: Printing tiles Post by: CKorfmann on December 20, 2009, 06:39:00 pm I use an ink jet printer and print on sticker paper. If your printer has a borderless printing option, it's possible to print out 20 tiles per page (4x5). I have done so successfully and find it safe a lot of paper. A very kind man made several pages of 20 tile layouts for me! ;) It's difficult to get the print quality very close at all to the real tiles, but I find that it is not that distracting. I spray them with a gloss coat to protect the ink (while they're still on the sheet). It seems to work well so far.
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