making tiles ?

[Purity]

tbh a gluestick is the worst method at all imho. i'm using din a4 pvc stickers. for printing i use a nashuatec mp c4000 (same as océ or ricoh) laserprinter.

[Novelty]

tbh a gluestick is the worst method at all imho.

I'm not sure I understand.  Can you explain why you think this is so?

[Purity]

- you get no plain surface
- bad durability
- you have to take care not to get glue on your fingers and so the the printed side
- the edges are not easy to glue perfectly

... just compare with printable stickers (din a4 plastic foil ... dont know if this is the correct name) which dont has all these negative points and _not_ talking about the better color results i got on these instead of paper (using a laser printer) ...

[koolkat]

Novelty, I use the bread bag, I mean the bag used for shopping bread, made of tissue.
If you're very demanding, glue stick is not the better solution. But it goes fairly well with me. After glueing tiles I wait glue to dry for a couple of hours. If fingers get glue, wash them!... It's not very difficult to glue tiles on the sides if we fold the paper just after positioning it on the tile and if we cut well the paper corners, if I made myself clear... From now and then some tiles unglue but if you reglue them better they won't unglue again... And if you're careful glue won't go either to the drawing or to the back. Apply the glue on the tile, not on the paper...

[Novelty]

- you get no plain surface
- bad durability
- you have to take care not to get glue on your fingers and so the the printed side
- the edges are not easy to glue perfectly

I can live with those.  I'm the worst person with using stickers!  Like koolkat, I like to be able to "move" the "new tile" around so that I get the "perfect" fit of image on the tile.  I will start making some River tiles soon.

[koolkat]

Correction: WE are the worst persons using stickers. 

[Lakoda]

I have found that using chipboard solves this problem, somewhat.  I print to a full sheet label (us-letter, 8.5x11) and roughly stick it to an 8.5x11 piece of .08 chipboard.  Then I cut out the top based on the guild lines on the tile print (cutting both the top print and the chipboard).  Then it is only a matter of cutting out the back (also on full sheet labels) and placing them...for which I don't really care how centered they are.  Once the backs are places I cut the back sheet by placing the tile face up (so the back is on the cutting board and the sticky side of the back sheet is exposed) and then I cut along the edge of the chipboard.  Worked great by my standards, I have them pressed between big heavy books at the moment - I'm hoping a few days under pressure will set the sticky and keep any edges/corners from curling up on me once I start playing with them.

[Scott]

In my experience, glue sticks are the worst for actually sticking. Liquid school glue is slightly better. Craft glue is even better. However, I prefer label paper because I have the option to remove the graphic at a later point in time and apply something different. There are some types of glue that are "repositionable". We have some kicking around the house but nobody has tried doing anything with it yet.

[Purity]

i am demanding and a perfectionist, i tried several options before for other games and this gave the best results, even tried 7 different types of color laser printers ;-) from cheap samsung and hp up to expensive nashuatec and océ which was the best in the end. also tried different sorts of label paper and foil. the pvc laser label foil also was the best solution in the end. ok, neither the foil nor printing is the cheapest option but in the end it pays of, no re-doing, no re-glueing and the best optic ...