What printer do you use for your proxies?

[MadMario]

Hey Guys,

I'm new to the forum so I apologize if this is not in the right spot. That said, I was wondering what printers/paper you use for your proxies?

I currently use:

Canon ip1800 printer - paid $40
8.5x11" glossy photo label paper - 50 cents a page (onlinelabels.com)
Canon CL-41 toner cartridges - $26 which prints about 30 pages (local office supply store)

Total cost per page - $1 ink + $.50 toner = approx $1.50 per page or $0.17 a card.

I get really good print quality, but it costs me almost a buck a page in ink. I'm thinking of going to a laser photo quality color printer to save some cash on ink (toner) but was wondering what other people used.

Thanks!

[Kl3p_co.]

I currently use:
Pen-about 2$
piece of paper-varies
and it proved to me as very efficient

[Goblin Hero]

I'm using B&W laser printer + ordinary 80g/m paper.
I'm printing proxies at work so it costs me $0.

[MadMario]

I used to print mine at work too, but I got moved to an area without a shared printer.. Too many people around.

[extreme]

250 g/m2 matte paper

[doxaios]

Which program do you use to print this proxies

[extreme]

photoshop

[doxaios]

You simple open a card picture with adobe photoshop an then what? How could you put and other cards to print them in one page? The dimensions of the card is ok or I must tweak something? Any details for printing proxies?

[extreme]

i print 9 cards / A4, and I have created a photoshop action and a printing template, but those would be useless to you, I use much higher resolution originals.
I am sure others have more simple workflows, but you can also build your own. The thing to keep in mind is that the art part (the part without borders) is 672x960 pixels for pre-8th cards and 670x966 pixels for post-8th @300 DPI printing. The final card is 739x1035 pixels @300dpi. Start from there, you have all info you need.

[doxaios]

I have a suggestion.To put ready to download files with cards. For example.9th edition ,a photoshop or anything else type file that anyone can open it in his pc and print it. Thanks for the info about the dimension but I think a detailed tutorial could be very useful.

[extreme]

a full set of ready to print @300dpi files would add 1.5x the size of the hq set, getting for ex a 80 mb set to around 200 mb. This is unacceptable for now, i think, since it's already too big...

[doxaios]

extreme think about to put a tutorial-how to print proxies. If you have time for something like that.

[extreme]

ok, here is the most user-friendly way i can think of.

Do this for each hq full image after opening in photoshop:
Image / image size / 701x987 pixels (resample image - bicubic or
preferably bicubic sharper), then
Image / canvas size / 739x1035 pixels (with the relative case
unchecked, anchor center square and canvas extension color black)

Then create a new a4 (or letter size, whichever standard you have in your
country) image:

File/new/preset: A4, resolution 300 px/inch, color mode rgb 8 bit,
background contents white.

Copy paste the other images inside it, move them around with the move
tool (with auto select layer checked) and place them on the page, so
that they don't superpose and they aren't on the border on the page
(most printers have difficulty printing the extreme borders of a
page).

Then print:
File/print with preview/ check center image, scale 100%, DON'T CHECK
SCALE TO FIT MEDIA !!!! then click on page setup, make sure Paper size
is the correct one (A4 or letter, depending on your sheet of paper),
portrait, check your printer settings and hit ok print at 300dpi, that's pretty
much it.


This is ok for pre-8th black bordered cards. For white bordered,
select in canvas extension color = white.
For post-8th design, image/image size should be 699x996, the rest is
exactly the same.

[doxaios]

Thanks great work I am doing it right now!!What do you mean here
"Copy paste the other images inside it, move them around with the move tool (with auto select layer checked) and place them on the page, so that they don't superpose and they aren't on the border on the page (most printers have difficulty printing the extreme borders of a page)."
I press control+C to copy but when I go to the new A4 and press control+V nothing happens.

[extreme]

before ctrl c you have to press ctrl a (select all), or more easily click and drag the image with the Move tool to the a4 destination