thewayne | It's alive! IT'S ALIVE! (Reply)

Got my laserprinter set up today. I wasn't sure if it would survive the drive, but it seems to have come through in fine fettle. The nice thing is that it doesn't mean that I'll have to spend $100+ on a new ink jet right now, though I still might have to when I get back into producing games. My laser can't print 100+# card stock, in fact, I have no idea what its upper limit is, the reference manual that I have doesn't really say. Ink jets, as long as they don't have a bendy paper path, don't have much of a problem with that card stock thickness. My alternative is to buy Avery 'business card' stock for ink jet/laser, it feeds just fine but it costs a lot more than the thicker card stock, so it drives your cost to produce playtest sets up quite a bit and you would not want to use them for production. Though they are the same height as conventional playing cards, they are at least a quarter inch narrower, so you have to be tighter on your card layout.

Anyway, it's cool having print capability again. I was very concerned that I'd have another piece of expensive junk to dispose of.