Printing Services

[GoblinTown]

I am thinking of having some character sheets for a few games printed up but have no current access to a printer.

I was thinking of having them done on decent quality paper.

Can anyone recommend any places that will do this kind of printing?
i.e. e-mail/upload pdf and how many of each needed and get the sheets mailed back to me.

Someplace that has listings of special paper would be a plus.
Different colors/styles etc.

Thanks!

 

[coyote6]

I think FedEx Office (nee Kinko's) offers an online printing service, but I have no idea how expensive it is.

Print Online, Online Printing and Print Management - FedEx Office

 

[Mark]

The UPS Store

Might be cheaper or closer than Kinkos/FedEx. You can stop by a Staples or other office supply store, pick up your own type of special paper and bring it with you to either, I am sure. I doubt they will charge you any less.

 

[Intrope]

I've used OfficeMax to print character sheets before when my printer was out. It worked well enough--they use good paper by default. I thought about getting card stock but that would have been something like $1/page.

 

[fba827]

Everyone else has already suggested the places I was going to mention.

But, having said that, I just wanted to ask -- are you -sure- you want to go through this trouble and expense (rather than doing it on plain paper, etc)?

I ask this simply because (in my experience) character sheets get a lot of marks/changes/etc over the course of a couple games to the point where I want a fresh print out every level or two to reflect all the character changes and to get rid of all the smudges/marks that have accumulated over the past few sessions.

 

[kitsune9]

I am thinking of having some character sheets for a few games printed up but have no current access to a printer.

I was thinking of having them done on decent quality paper.

Can anyone recommend any places that will do this kind of printing?
i.e. e-mail/upload pdf and how many of each needed and get the sheets mailed back to me.

Someplace that has listings of special paper would be a plus.
Different colors/styles etc.

Thanks!

I used to do Kinkos a long time ago when I wanted character sheets on cool-looking paper. It was about a $.50 a page for black and white.

 

[Mark]

My local UPS Store charges $0.10 or less for a B&W copy, and when I supply my own paperstock (sometimes I bring cardstock for dungeon tiles), they sometimes round down on the quantity. IIRC, a Kinkos/FedEx are corporate owned but the local UPS Store is a franchise. The local UPS Store owner owns the one close to me and a few others, and he often puts hours in each store himself. He has leeway to make price adjustments on his own. He sometimes runs specials on copy pricing, like B&W for less than $0.10 each and color copies are now down to $0.35 each and sticking there. I keep my eyes open for better deals but haven't found one in the past couple of years and I've watched about a half dozen "kwiky" copy services and small print shops that will do copying in the area. Check the yellow pages or do an Internet search for everything close to you, then call around to all of the places and they will give you the current prices. Ask if they ever run sales on copying prices. Make sure you can bring your own cardstock (some smaller places were weird about doing that, I found). It's worth looking around as the differences in price and service can be extreme. I had one small place get upset because my color copies had a lot of ink coverage (they were battlemap sections) and tried to charge me double on what was already a high price for a color copy.