What size paper is needed to print this? [Universal Game Cases]

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shenske:

--- Quote from: Falconhood on February 22, 2010, 02:55:45 AM ---At my Office Max, they sell a Ream(500 sheets) of the heavier 14" long paper, because they use it for printing too. It costs $0.69 to have a 14" long print made. I fill my page up with fake atari covers and other pictures, even a bookmark or spine label for a notebook(out of the 1" top border). Waste-not, Want-Not.

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That's exactly what I use too. It's also much nicer to have officemax print them out on their laser printers, excellent quality. Personally I don't like the results of printing covers on glossy paper, it turns out too shiny.

Brandonh1091:
Today I printed out an Ocarina of Time cover on a standard 8.5 x 11" sheet of Photo quality paper I got from a friend, and I've got to say, it looked almost like the real thing...until I threw it in a UGC. The slightly "grainy" texture of the outside sleeve kind of brings down the shine and everything. My regular legal paper N64 boxes actually looked just as good next to OoT unless you were really looking hard.

On top of that, it used a ridiculous amount of ink from my printer, and considering the price of the paper/cartridges, I think Shenskes right. Glossy really isn't worth it. If anything maybe a semi-gloss, but even then I doubt you'll find that in a legal sized sheet.

aka DaBigKahuna:
I was in Office Max today and the sales rep. showed me some 14 X 17 paper in flat, semi-gloss and glossy. $1.39 a sheet for them to print from a disc and the paper was thick.

Since I only have about 10 covers, It's worth it for me and I plan on going there tomorrow to get some covers done.

Zelimpdna:
What weight paper do you recommend using? I recently bought some 110gsm glossy paper, which looks infinitely better than normal 80gsm paper, but it still just feels a bit too thin. In the past I tried using some 260gsm glossy photo paper for DVD covers, but I wasn't too happy with them.

What do most of you use, and what is closest to a retail cover?

AppleQueso:
Everyone always asks what's "closest" to retail thickness, when they seem to forget that there isn't really much of a standard even among games on the same console.

Take a recently bought ps2 game and an older one and remove the inserts. You'll notice that one is much thinner than the other. Don't worry about thickness, just make sure it's thick enough to not bleed through to the other side. You can't tell how thick it is once it's in the case anyhow

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