Could you show me what your cards look like? I can’t seem to find them looking through this 20+ page thread. The cards I’m referring to are the multi-color, biege background ones Cameron is working on. There’s no way they could use less ink than the ones I made.
I’m sorry if I crossed a line. I didn’t mean to upset anyone.
I am not upset. I tried printing some cards like what you suggest not long after 4E was put out. A run of 12 pages used about 3% of my ink cartridge. A run of the same number of cards (12 pages at 6 per page is 72 cards, so that would be 8 sheets) from the one that Cameron did only used 4% ink. The difference in ink usage was minimal. This is what I was referring to.
Could you show me what your cards look like? I can’t seem to find them looking through this 20+ page thread. The cards I’m referring to are the multi-color, biege background ones Cameron is working on. There’s no way they could use less ink than the ones I made.
I’m sorry if I crossed a line. I didn’t mean to upset anyone.
I am not upset. I tried printing some cards like what you suggest not long after 4E was put out. A run of 12 pages used about 3% of my ink cartridge. A run of the same number of cards (12 pages at 6 per page is 72 cards, so that would be 8 sheets) from the one that Cameron did only used 4% ink. The difference in ink usage was minimal. This is what I was referring to.
Did I not upload that here already? I’ll try to remember for the 2 days I’m home next weekend before heading back out on Monday.
I just had the time to go back searching through the thread and found the image. I guess I missed it because you edited the upload into an old post rather than creating a new one about it.
Other than dropping the card backs into Word (which I don’t want to do) can you get MSE to print out the card backs in the same style / size as the fronts? What I want to do is have one sheet of the card fronts, the second is the card backs so I can print double sided and it automatically prints on the back correctly.
Other than dropping the card backs into Word (which I don’t want to do) can you get MSE to print out the card backs in the same style / size as the fronts? What I want to do is have one sheet of the card fronts, the second is the card backs so I can print double sided and it automatically prints on the back correctly.
Thoughts?
Others have tried, but I don’t find it worth the effort. Easier to just print on cheap normal paper* and just slip on either side of a playing card inside a protector/CCG envelope.
* My cheap normal paper is recycled paper, of course.
Other than dropping the card backs into Word (which I don’t want to do) can you get MSE to print out the card backs in the same style / size as the fronts? What I want to do is have one sheet of the card fronts, the second is the card backs so I can print double sided and it automatically prints on the back correctly.
Thoughts?
Others have tried, but I don’t find it worth the effort. Easier to just print on cheap normal paper* and just slip on either side of a playing card inside a protector/CCG envelope.
* My cheap normal paper is recycled paper, of course.
Teos
If I was to go the envelope route, any sense of what these cards are related to for “type”? They seem to print out at 3.5” high by 2.5” wide. So like the “Ultra-Pro” deck protectors, any idea what dimensions those are?
There is a card back style in our set which can print out the card backs in exactly the same arrangement as the front. The problem is that there is no way to control margins in MSE printing. As a result, two sided printing on the same sheet is something of a hit or miss. If your printer naturally prints the cards with nice symmetric margins, then you should be able to print the card backs on the same sheet fairly easily. If it doesn’t, then there’s considerably more work involved in making it happen.
Also, print order out of MSE is very hard to control. Based on my experience, it’s based on the order in which the cards were added to the set, but I’m not entirely sure about this. As a result, it’s very hard to have your card backs and cards in the same set and to make sure that the will appear in the right order on the print outs so that they’ll line up when you flip the page over.
There is a card back style in our set which can print out the card backs in exactly the same arrangement as the front. The problem is that there is no way to control margins in MSE printing. As a result, two sided printing on the same sheet is something of a hit or miss. If your printer naturally prints the cards with nice symmetric margins, then you should be able to print the card backs on the same sheet fairly easily. If it doesn’t, then there’s considerably more work involved in making it happen.
Also, print order out of MSE is very hard to control. Based on my experience, it’s based on the order in which the cards were added to the set, but I’m not entirely sure about this. As a result, it’s very hard to have your card backs and cards in the same set and to make sure that the will appear in the right order on the print outs so that they’ll line up when you flip the page over.
So what I ended up doing is dropping the card back image into Corel, distributing and aligning (and of course sizing the image to 3.5 x 2.5) and then inserting it as every other page. I’ll have a chance to print it later today, but the back and the front line up almost perfectly this way.
Any chance you will be making the Swordmage Power Cards soon?
I am very tech inept and haven’t been able to get the program working to make my own.
Being there is a campaign about to start in the next couple weeks and one has picked a Swordmage, I have been seeking that class’s power cards and prefer your style.
While I see Andre(?) has them, I can’t get any of his stuff working. Not because of anything he has set up, but because I cannot seem to get the programs / saving / extracting / etc. done correctly on my end.
It would be most appreciated if you were going to be posting those sometime soon.
Thanks!
-- Rolemancer
[ Edited: 02 November 2008 09:10 AM by Rolemancer]
Sorry Rolemancer. I don’t own any of the books other than the base three and don’t have any intentions of getting them any time soon. Maybe Christmas time I’ll get the FRCS.
