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What do you guys do for case-inserts that are larger than your paper?
CadmiumRED:
Heh no prob man. Ever since I started collecting retro games again, I remembered I had a way to get everything I needed since I work in the printing department at the store. But yeah, 80# glossy text paper is your ticket. The way I print mine is I save what it is I'm working with as either a PNG or a PDF, then I open the file under Adobe Acrobat Pro or 9 or whatever it is I work with, then I print from there with the giant powerhouse laserjet printer we have. Covers for games, to me, always look best if printed with toner instead of ink. Ink always bleeds through the paper and has to take time to dry, and it's kinda wrinkly in comparison.
TheSlyder:
--- Quote from: CadmiumRED on August 17, 2011, 09:28:27 PM ---Heh no prob man. Ever since I started collecting retro games again, I remembered I had a way to get everything I needed since I work in the printing department at the store. But yeah, 80# glossy text paper is your ticket. The way I print mine is I save what it is I'm working with as either a PNG or a PDF, then I open the file under Adobe Acrobat Pro or 9 or whatever it is I work with, then I print from there with the giant powerhouse laserjet printer we have. Covers for games, to me, always look best if printed with toner instead of ink. Ink always bleeds through the paper and has to take time to dry, and it's kinda wrinkly in comparison.
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Is there any difference in color or quality for toner vs ink?
CadmiumRED:
Personally, I think toner proves as a closer match to the source material than ink because ink gets slightly discolored, depending on what kind of paper you're using. Being that all the printers I use are toner-based, I've had no problem with any of them thus far. What you should be wary of is what color profile your print file is working in, CMYK or RGB. If you have an RGB-based toner/ink printer, your file needs to be RGB. If CMYK, CMYK. You can change color profiles in Adobe Photoshop easily, that's if and only if you're extremely nitpicky with colors. For me, I'm not worried about that.