[Consim-l] DTP: How to make counters?

[Kenneth Li]

MessageAnd in the line of art supplies or picture framing store, don't need to pay for the material, ask the store for any scrap, i.e. the left over after they frame a picture, they should be able to give you a bag, enough to mount 100+ counters.

--- Ken ---
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Gerber, Hjalmar 
  To: consim-l at mailman.halisp.net 
  Sent: Monday, November 20, 2006 11:49 AM
  Subject: RE: [Consim-l] DTP: How to make counters?


  For the best cardboard, visit a *real* art supplies or picture framing store.  They should carry the right stuff - in large sheets that will last you for thousands (remember "Drang nach Osten'?) of counters.  I'm just finishing up some test counters for a new game.  They look great - ink jet print on glossy photo paper, mounted on art board with rubber cement, cut with Fiskars rotary blade.  The double-sided accuracy is obtained by guiding the glued pieces (sheet onto board) together with four pins.

  Hjalmar
    -----Original Message-----


    I've never done this, but I thought about it and here's what I came up with. 


    Stickers.....


    There's got to be sticker sheets (like those self adhesive labels) that can be used. I know some are one big 8 1/2 x 11 sticker. Print on it, cut it into smaller pieces and stick that on blank counters. Those are (or were) readily available.


    Alain 


    On 13-Nov-06, at 2:26 PM, Mike NotSpecified wrote:


      I have scans of many of my countersheets and comfort myself with the idea that I could make replaceemnt counters if I should lose an orginal.


      But how do people get quality cunters of the right thickness?  My printer will only handle paper up to a certain thickness (read thin), so I presume I'll have to glue the printed paper to something, but I've never found the right "something".  (I, in fact, have a stack of shirt cardboard and other misc shipping materials laying around in case that should be the right answer, but even the shirt cardboard is pretty thin, not sure I want to glue up layers)


      Anyway, I'm betting somebody already has a slick solution?
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