hm. my inkjet printer can't print on blank playing cards (too small for the paper tray to pick up and feed through it)

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

hm. my inkjet printer can't print on blank playing cards (too small for the paper tray to pick up and feed through it).

I figure I'd see if I could find a small cheap printer that can passably print color on that size of paper, but it seems that product listings for printers mostly don't advertise their minimum supported paper size :|

[vilelasagna@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@aeva Mine is an HP Envy 5640 and it has a secondary tray intended for photo paper.

Those are listed as 10x15cm ( 4x6 inches). Maybe this is a type of thing that could work? Or at least be easy to print in pairs or something?

Potential deal breaker: It won't let me change the type of the media on the photo tray to "plain paper"

[meluzzy@woof.tech]

@aeva have you tried sticking the card to a normal size paper so that the printer takes it?

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@meluzzy I considered it, but I don't have a good way to do that without jamming the printer

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

well, this is what I was hoping to do a test print of tonight, but it seems that is not on the cards

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

my printer might be able to print on index cards, so I'll probably do that instead. it is probably fine if the art is slightly over sized for this project

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

bah, my crappy all-in-one home office giclée printer can't do borderless printing on index cards

[lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@aeva the trick is to slice off the borders afterwards with a paper guillotine. plus, in a zombie apocalypse you can rip off the blade and use it as a weapon. i seen it done in a movie.

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@lritter I'll probably end up doing something like that if I decide not to abandon this project