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Shugo Takahashi:
I'm getting rather tired of the less-than-stellar home printing jobs I do on every cover I print. I don't really have a ton of money for the correct paper, the ink, and most importantly my cutting skills are wretched. I've read around that some people are using Kinko's for this, and I was wondering what using that option is like. How does it work? How do I get the images to them? What do I tell them that I want when I go there? Do they cut them to size for you? Most importantly, how much does it cost?
Having all my covers uniform and vivid without going through straining hours and money would be really nice. I've already hand-covered all of my handheld games, but a long while back (around the time some of you might have known me as KirbyKollector) I used a printing method that made DS case covers slightly the wrong size. Now that I'm doing it right, all the smaller wrong-sized covers look terrible next to the new ones, so now I need to re-cover all of them.
...except I don't want to, so help me out here, please. Thanks for any info; I can't wait to get around to finishing off the collection (I got hundreds of games...check my Backloggery).
Paul:
--- Quote from: Shugo Takahashi on February 15, 2009, 05:51:54 AM ---I'm getting rather tired of the less-than-stellar home printing jobs I do on every cover I print. I don't really have a ton of money for the correct paper, the ink, and most importantly my cutting skills are wretched. I've read around that some people are using Kinko's for this, and I was wondering what using that option is like. How does it work? How do I get the images to them? What do I tell them that I want when I go there? Do they cut them to size for you? Most importantly, how much does it cost?
Having all my covers uniform and vivid without going through straining hours and money would be really nice. I've already hand-covered all of my handheld games, but a long while back (around the time some of you might have known me as KirbyKollector) I used a printing method that made DS case covers slightly the wrong size. Now that I'm doing it right, all the smaller wrong-sized covers look terrible next to the new ones, so now I need to re-cover all of them.
...except I don't want to, so help me out here, please. Thanks for any info; I can't wait to get around to finishing off the collection (I got hundreds of games...check my Backloggery).
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Although I'm not too sure about kinkos and such, whats wrong with your home printed covers? I print all of my covers at home and they all come out rather great.
Take some pictures of the covers that you printed from home and post them up.
juan0tron:
Yeah my library's printers printed all my covers out way too small, and it was a pretty decent quality printer they had too. I'm hoping my new printer can print things large enough for dvd/ds cases, otherwise it's off to the local staples (or as a last resort maybe my school :/ )
Also quite the backloggery collection you've got goin' on there. I see you're in a very nintendo-y phase right now :D
Doukas:
With Kinkos you do have the nice feature of them having the paper cutters, which makes cutting out all the covers much easier and faster than doing it by hand with scissors. However, I decided that I'd rather do everything at home, even though it's costing way more than I thought it would. I like having the freedom of being able to do a few at a time, especially now where I have to cut up 34 universal game cases to fit NES carts. I generally can only bring myself to do a few at a time.
Shugo Takahashi:
Woah, I forgot I posted this. Thanks for the replies, guys.
The problem really isn't entirely with my collection's quality...it's the cost. I have to pay for life's necessities, and I can't keep buying ink and paper just to make these covers...and in the end I cut them out all wonky anyway since I can't afford a huge chopping board for straight edges. After running two sets of ink into the ground (on "normal" quality print at that) I got fed up and I want to know if getting it done at a place like Kinko's or what have you is cheaper. It sounds like it is, and I really wouldn't mind bringing over covers in big groups if it's miles cheaper and they even cut them out for me. It sounds to me like there's a big hit-or-miss problem with them refusing service over copyright, so what other places do this in the US? What can I look for?
Also, thanks for the Backloggery complement, z0mbiew0lf. I actually just recently found that site, and it's exactly the kind of place I've been looking for to organize my games. Yeah, I've recently gone back to my old Game Boy games. It started with me wanting to replay the G/S/C part of Pokemon by reviving Crystal's battery and evolved (no pun intended) into me planning on replaying the entire Pokemon series up through Platinum when it comes out and also rounding off both Stadiums. This caused me to dig up my N64 and buy an S-Video cable for it (Nintendo Store still sells these!) for maximum greatness. I finished Yellow and replaced the battery on Crystal, so I'm working on Crystal right now and simultaneously trying to finish off Stadium with the Pokemon from Yellow. All the nostalgia also caused me to remember Super Mario Bros. Deluxe, which in turn caused me to remember the Game Boy Printer...which finally ended with me getting back into the Game Boy Camera mania. So I ordered a couple Japanese cameras off of eBay and I intend on finally finishing the B Album in all three of my cameras and having glorious fun with the Game Boy Printer with the Cameras, SMBDX, and Pokemon.
Wow, I really got off topic. Sorry!