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Re: Make Your Own Grid Paper

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Post by ohwp » Sat, May 03, 2014, 7:20 AM UTC

jws wrote: post #13

I still buy preprinted grid paper and staff paper. It is extraordinarily difficult to force a printer to use the exact same width on each line. There are just too many layers of abstraction between the browser/document and the hardware.

Most of the time the 'smart' printer software is to blame. But I think if you stick to world units and print at 100% you will be fine.

Remember that dpi only controls print quality not print measurements. One cm printed at 300dpi will have the same length as one cm at 72dpi.

Re: Make Your Own Grid Paper

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Post by Intermernet » Sat, May 03, 2014, 7:41 AM UTC

mikhuang wrote: post #12

looks fun! being able to input specific dimensions would be nice, e.g. 5mm or .25" grid

I agree, the only thing this is missing is actual units (both metric and imperial).

Re: Make Your Own Grid Paper

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Post by WWLink » Sat, May 03, 2014, 8:09 AM UTC

My canon mx860 can actually do this straight from its menu haha. There's a few options for college ruled, wide ruled, and grid paper. This web app has more choices, but the printer makes some amazing paper as is :D

Re: Make Your Own Grid Paper

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Post by tpsc » Sat, May 03, 2014, 8:21 AM UTC

famousactress wrote: post #2

Oh wow. I love this idea (edit: AND execution!).. I guess it's a minor bummer that I assume my printer won't print full-bleed but still... Things I'd love even more: Indications of exact sizing and the ability to choose what shade of gray/black to be printed.

Another option: http://paperkit.net/

Re: Make Your Own Grid Paper

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Post by imron » Sat, May 03, 2014, 8:57 AM UTC

On a related note, for grid paper for practising Chinese (or Japanese) characters, check out my site: http://www.hanzigrids.com/

Re: Make Your Own Grid Paper

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Post by interfacesketch » Sat, May 03, 2014, 9:50 AM UTC

[Shameless plug] If you want A4 or US letter gridded paper for sketching a mobile, web or tablet UI, I have a bunch of free ones on my site.

http://www.interfacesketch.com

Re: Make Your Own Grid Paper

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Post by twic » Sat, May 03, 2014, 10:47 AM UTC

vobios wrote: post #3

famousactress wrote: post #2

Oh wow. I love this idea (edit: AND execution!).. I guess it's a minor bummer that I assume my printer won't print full-bleed but still... Things I'd love even more: Indications of exact sizing and the ability to choose what shade of gray/black to be printed.

This one has some of the options your are looking for such as spacing, color, and page border: http://incompetech.com/graphpaper/

Gridzzly (and why is this not gridzz.ly?) is nice and all, but the Incompetech generator is in fact much better. Still, we're startup fanboys, we're not that bothered about substance if there's some nice style on offer.

Re: Make Your Own Grid Paper

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Post by mongol » Sat, May 03, 2014, 11:28 AM UTC

nacs wrote: post #10

mayoff wrote: post #7

My favorite graph paper: http://whitelines.se/function/

They have a patent on white lines on slightly greyed paper? Amazing.

Maybe not the idea itself but a method to print it?

Re: Make Your Own Grid Paper

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Post by jsherer » Sat, May 03, 2014, 1:24 PM UTC

nacs wrote: post #10

mayoff wrote: post #7

My favorite graph paper: http://whitelines.se/function/

They have a patent on white lines on slightly greyed paper? Amazing.

Here's the patent: http://www.google.com/patents/EP1868820B1?cl=en

Re: Make Your Own Grid Paper

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Post by kaitai » Sat, May 03, 2014, 2:04 PM UTC

vobios wrote: post #3

famousactress wrote: post #2

Oh wow. I love this idea (edit: AND execution!).. I guess it's a minor bummer that I assume my printer won't print full-bleed but still... Things I'd love even more: Indications of exact sizing and the ability to choose what shade of gray/black to be printed.

This one has some of the options your are looking for such as spacing, color, and page border: http://incompetech.com/graphpaper/

The Incompetech has some useful ones like polar and triangular, too.