For those of you printing covers at Kinkos

[Gavica]

Could you guys please tell me what Type of paper, etc do you tell the guy to print the covers at? and around how much it cost per print?

thanks

[Arseen]

Could you guys please tell me what Type of paper, etc do you tell the guy to print the covers at? and around how much it cost per print?

thanks

Semi-gloss photo paper.

Using normal print quality printing is about 50 cents per cover, high quality twice that.

[BadChad]

I guess it all depends on two things. One, how much a glossy cover matters to you. And two, how many games you need covers for.

See I have roughly a little over 400 games to case between my NES, SNES and N64 games so going with glossy prints would get quite expensive very fast and therefore would probably take me twice as long and twice as much to case up all my games. So instead I went with legal presentation paper (500 sheets for 20$) which is thicker than standard paper and should cover me for all my covers. Much cheaper and the quality of my covers are still of very nice quality.

But if your only printing out covers for say 20-50 games than sure, why not go with the Semi-Gloss.

[Gavica]

Could you guys please tell me what Type of paper, etc do you tell the guy to print the covers at? and around how much it cost per print?

thanks

Semi-gloss photo paper.

Using normal print quality printing is about 50 cents per cover, high quality twice that.

thanks, do you tell them which paper size is needed or they willl now once I give them the file?

[Gavica]

I guess it all depends on two things. One, how much a glossy cover matters to you. And two, how many games you need covers for.

See I have roughly a little over 400 games to case between my NES, SNES and N64 games so going with glossy prints would get quite expensive very fast and therefore would probably take me twice as long and twice as much to case up all my games. So instead I went with legal presentation paper (500 sheets for 20$) which is thicker than standard paper and should cover me for all my covers. Much cheaper and the quality of my covers are still of very nice quality.

But if your only printing out covers for say 20-50 games than sure, why not go with the Semi-Gloss.

I currently Use HP multipurpose Legal paper, but it seems very thin. the stats on this paper is 20lb 75g/m2 96brite for a 500 ream.

Where do you get the legal presentation? and is it thicker than the one I have?

[Arseen]

I guess it all depends on two things. One, how much a glossy cover matters to you. And two, how many games you need covers for.

See I have roughly a little over 400 games to case between my NES, SNES and N64 games so going with glossy prints would get quite expensive very fast and therefore would probably take me twice as long and twice as much to case up all my games. So instead I went with legal presentation paper (500 sheets for 20$) which is thicker than standard paper and should cover me for all my covers. Much cheaper and the quality of my covers are still of very nice quality.

But if your only printing out covers for say 20-50 games than sure, why not go with the Semi-Gloss.

I suggest doing them well, so you won't regret later.

BTW: Old picture of my collection:
http://www.thecoverproject.net/forums/index.php?topic=2738.15

Missing from image ~150 SNES, ~100 N64 and ~200 NES games, I mean out of UGC cover awaiting games. (Also missing pretty much all newer console games)

[Gavica]

does anyone know if office depot do the same thing as kinkos?

[shenske]

does anyone know if office depot do the same thing as kinkos?

What do you mean "the same thing"?  If you are talking about printing images then yes they do that. I print at Office Max and Office Depot all the time. Just remember to tell them that there automatic printing program doesn't work (resizes images) so just print them in Photoshop.

[Gavica]

Well I went to kinkos but they didn't have semi gloss photo paper, they had another type of semi gloss paper, and wanted to charge me over $3 for each print, will try another kinkos.