"What would be really nice of vendors to do would be if they had all their printed sheets online as downloadable PDFs that ensured they printed to the proper size of the original. Ideally, all printed cards would fit on standard 8-1/2" x 11" pages or a legal size pages. Most of us scan them in, but, apparently, my scanning skills must not be good because they always seem to print just slightly off from the original."
Great idea!
It's great that most all instructions are available online now. I usually check them before ordering a kit. At Jim Zs and oldrocketplans,.com, sometimes the scanned PDFs are off or not clear enough to be used.
A note to anyone submitting instructions, fin patterns and card stock shrouds -
PLEASE INCLUDE A 1" BLOCK or 1" MEASURE SPAN REFERENCE so we can check our home prints!
If you've ever had occasion to download paper models you would've run into the following:
ReplyDelete* Sizing the page so that it can fit either US letter and A4 size might be a good idea.
A4: 210 × 297 millimetres or 8.27 × 11.69 inches
US letter: 215.9 x 279.4 millimetres or 8.5 x 11 inches
* Keep margins to no less than 3/8" (~9.5mm) might be a good idea -- this will assure print doesn't go beyond the printable area for most printers (most printers can't print all the way to the edge of the paper).
Of course it becomes tricky if you've got two-sided prints where you've got to align the front and back side of the sheet (sometimes occurs on a few paper models).