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Printer recommendations?

PostPosted: June 13th, 2014, 11:38 am
by Ragnar IronFist
I'm digging many of these tile and terrain sources! I have a basic inkjet that does a dandy job for the day-to-day family use. But I'm pretty certain it will drink those costly ink cartridges and probably die pretty quick if I were to bust out a terrain-printing campaign. I'm pretty sure the colors would be not-so-strong, bleedy, and pretty off from the source too.

Do most of you who do this use laser? High capacity? Any specific model you recommend the most? Experiences with different printers? Just wondering if folks here have some advice on printers...as well as paper/card stock... For all the nice printable resources here...

Re: Printer recommendations?

PostPosted: June 13th, 2014, 11:58 am
by Teldurn
I don't know about specific printers, I just have a plain Epson inkjet something. But for paper, I've found that 110lb card stock is great for printing cards on.

Re: Printer recommendations?

PostPosted: June 13th, 2014, 1:06 pm
by clmckay
I use a HP COlor LaserJet CP1518. The toner things are expensive but they actually alst a long time. The color quality is very good. My only two gripes are:
1) If I print a large number all at once, sometimes the heavier cardstock will faux jam (not really jam but but fail to grab the next page and think there's a jam) and
2) When printing a lot at once, after a while it gets so it leaves little....not streaks or smudges...but small bits where it doesn't properly transfer to the page - always at the top of the page, never in the middles of the pages/tiles.

Otherwise, it's great. I use that method to print bunches of tiles prior to laminating/cutting them.