I bought some light gray cover stock today at Staples. I remember threads from edging where gray is one of the best colors to edge with and I thought maybe if used colored stock I can cut out the edging phase in construction. Has anyone done this? I'd like to dip a toe in the brain pool before I burn some ink.

Luckyjoe

I've played with some colored cardstock before. What you have to remember is that the textures are intended to be printed on white. Using an alternate color will change the look of the prints. How much will depend on the exact color of the paper. I recommend you just try building something small. Perhaps something in stone, or a scifi bit. Something that is already grayish.

Thanks, that's good advice. That was my concern, that the colors might be altered printing on other than a white background.

Luckyjoe

I have done small tests on different coloured paper, none were very satisfactory.

I printed some stone on various colors.

I also did it on red, but I don't have a pic.

As you can see the cream isn't too bad. I may try experimenting again with some of the tiled floors. They might give me some more options on my next mansion build.

Hi, LD. Thanks for the suggestion. I have checked out that site. I never have good luck with my printers, though. I've got 3 different printers, two HP and 1 Lexmark. Their site had my Lexmark carts for 18.99 black and 19.99 tricolor, one HP was 9.95 and 10.95 respectively with the other HP 21.99 and 26.99. I've been buying refill kits off e-bay or at Walmart. But they're al ittle messy and with my expensive HP cart, the cyan came out gray instead of blue for two refills in a row. Don't know why. Bought a new one and it worked fine.

This is a link to that CISS printer I'd like to get. http://kalvins.com/index.asp?PageAction ... rodID=1965

It's a Brother MFC-240C Printer that has been modified to include a CISS. They've got it priced at $109 at CDW unmodified so it's worth the extra $90 to me to get it set up with a CISS installed and 400mL of ink. Especially when you take into account the likelihood that if I try myself to install a CISS i'll probably break both the printer and the CISS and end up buying both new.

Luckyjoe

I have that printer without the CISS. I also got the 3360 brothers, both use the same cartridges, which I get from 4inkjets.

I know this is refurbished but its the same model at a great price.

http://www.staples.com/office/supplies/ ... &langId=-1