Novelty's Tiles

[Scott]

How much did those 10 sheets cost you and who do you order them from?

Also, in general, does anyone know of a good flat bed inkjet printer that will handle 2 mm thick paper?  Canon only makes one that will do 1.2 mm.

Thanks,
S1

Ink is water soluble; better to look at laser printing. 2mm might be too thick for typical printers. The manufacturer probably uses a plot-style printer where the material remains stationary and the print head moves above it.

[meepleater]

Here are my 12 black tower piece, all painted.  My apologies for being a really poor photographer   I did a demo of a "pink tower" piece which took double as long as the black tower pieces to paint.  Also included in the pic is a pink meeple just for comparison.

*gasp* there is an illegally placed piece in the bottom right!

How much did those 10 sheets cost you and who do you order them from?

Also, in general, does anyone know of a good flat bed inkjet printer that will handle 2 mm thick paper?  Canon only makes one that will do 1.2 mm.

Thanks,
S1

Ink is water soluble; better to look at laser printing. 2mm might be too thick for typical printers. The manufacturer probably uses a plot-style printer where the material remains stationary and the print head moves above it.

I only have a prehistoric ink jet which hates me to print the tiles, so sometimes they're blurry (depends on how nice the printer is being), I can't let the tiles get wet/ put on too much glue, and the printer finds other ways to annoy me (such as displaying 'out of coloured ink' when it knows perfectly well that there is plenty (and I have proved that there is) as well as spilling black ink on the edges of some of the pages I print...)
We do have a newer, kinder laserjet printer but that only does black and white...

[Skull One]

Ink is water soluble; better to look at laser printing. 2mm might be too thick for typical printers. The manufacturer probably uses a plot-style printer where the material remains stationary and the print head moves above it.

I plan to clear coat the tiles after 24 hours of drying.  I can not find a photo color laser printer that will feed 2mm thick paper flat.  And I have looked at thermal transfer as well and the only good ones still being made are $3k plus.  I can justify spending about $800 to 1K, but that is about it.

Guess I am going to have to find a used "professional" printer to solve the issue if no one has a good suggestion.

[Novelty]

*gasp* there is an illegally placed piece in the bottom right!

Nobody has identified all the mistakes on the image before this one.  There are quite a number of mistakes on that one.



That's Wizard of Oz, Fairy Tales (featureing the Big Bad Wolf) and Log Cabins.  I still haven't got my big bad wolf meeples so I'm using the black meeples from The Discovery.  I'm also using the green meeple from The Discovery as my Wizard of Oz   Other meeples in the picture include 2 brown normal meeples and a brown pig.  There's also a gold-painted tower piece sitting on the gold bricks/tower tile.

I had a 2008 desktop calendar lying around, so I measured the cardboard stand and it was the same thickness as Carc tiles.  There's now a hole in it as I cut out a small piece to make the apples and timber counters from Fairy Tales.  I guess I'll have to make An Apple a Day and Timber! tiles next!

[meepleater]

The curse of the printer strikes again! Today's annoyance consists of all the tiles I'm trying to print out turning blue... which would be all right if I was making an expansion 'the blizzard' but I'm not, unfortunately...

[skipboris]

The curse of the printer strikes again! Today's annoyance consists of all the tiles I'm trying to print out turning blue... which would be all right if I was making an expansion 'the blizzard' but I'm not, unfortunately...

Hah!    ........hmmmmmm

[Scott]

That happens when you run out of the other colors. Having only blue left is quite an achievement because it means you used equal amounts of yellow and magenta. I used to run out of just one color and be left with a sickly purple color. It can be especially annoying if your printer has a combined color cartridge. This is why when I upgraded to laser, I also looked for a printer with separate color cartridges. (Inkjets with separate color cartridges also exist.)

[meepleater]

I don't think it's out of magenta, the red still shows, it's just the green that has gone blue, so only yellow is missing. But it has done it before, printing out yellow or other colours, but it's usually only a temporary problem so I'll have another go later...

[CKorfmann]

Anyways, here's my next batch of tiles.  Apologies for the flash overexposing part of the image.  4 Cathar tiles with the image from BGG (the colours doesn't match with any of the tiles I make ) and 12 rivers tiles (formerly Rivers 2) from Fishermen.  Meeples (clockwise from top): Orange Barn, purple pig, red H&G meeple, black tower, pink meeple, white wagon.  As usual, have fun spotting all the mistakes in the image.

Isn't that a red meeple from Discovery and not H&G?

[Novelty]

Isn't that a red meeple from Discovery and not H&G?

Yes, you're right, it's discovery.

[CKorfmann]

Where did you find the orange barn and white cart?  Did you paint them?

[Novelty]

I bought a full set of white and orange A&M meeples from ebay.

[CKorfmann]

I've been looking for those everywhere!

[CKorfmann]

I bought a full set of white and orange A&M meeples from ebay.

Do you know if they are still available?  Which ebay (country) site was that? 

You mentioned before that you used a simple glue stick on your homemade tiles.  Is that working out?

[Novelty]

You mentioned before that you used a simple glue stick on your homemade tiles.  Is that working out?

You can sometimes tell that the tile is homemade, so I just throw everything into a big bag.  Well, if it falls off (and it hasn't yet), I can just print out new ones and glue them back on, so there's no big loss for me there.