I really want to get some of the hyper-specific pamphlets from 30 Rock printed up and leave them lying around.

  • Thrashy@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Once-upon-a-time print shop employee here: the secret to professional-looking print media is good paper. Almost everything except insanely high volume products is are printed on a color laser printer, and most of the useful difference between a cheap Brother printer and a five-figure digital press has to do with printing larger pages, faster, on both sides automatically and/or on cardstock. If you’re patient, have a small color laser printer, a good template for designing trifold brochures, and don’t need anything bigger than 8.5x11, you can have as many oddly specific pamphlets as your heart desires!

    • Jenny! [she/her]@dubvee.orgOPM
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      I’ve got a laser printer, but it’s only monochrome. I do have some friends that print photos (I just have mine printed at walmart). Maybe I can get some good paper stock and call in a favor. I’d still need to design them, but that part I can probably handle.

      Thinking out loud here, so forgive me, but I’d like to do something where they’re printed in color as a template and I can load those in my B&W printer to print the actual text so I can personalize them as-needed.