Comments on: Help me utilise my printer

Question: Help me utilise my printer

mjao — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 20:48:11 -0800

I love printing things. Please direct me to websites with cool things to print out (e.g., interesting pdfs, stationery, stickers, posters, foldable objects, paper cd cases, quotations I should keep, anything that allows me to make the most of my printer!!)

By: fvox13

fvox13 — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 20:52:06 -0800

Zug's Printer Pranks are a great set of "leave behind" pieces. I once had the "DO NOT DISCARD THIS SHEET" remain undiscarded by coworkers for a month or so, because, you know, you can't disobey a piece of paper...

By: Fins

Fins — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 20:53:17 -0800

Graph paper and other useful stuff.

By: phatkitten

phatkitten — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 21:01:36 -0800

PocketMod

By: iconomy

iconomy — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 21:05:29 -0800

You'd probably love the Paper Forest blog. Not only do they link to tons of great toys and paper crafts and projects and automata themselves (go through the archives), the link menu on the right links to dozens more sites to check out, most with free templates and downloadable projects. Also, this site has page after page templates of cute little boxes you can print out and fold.

By: p3t3

p3t3 — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 21:06:52 -0800

Canon's Japan site has a big section of papercraft stuff to print (there's halloween masks and decorations right now too).

I'm not sure if their American/English site has anything similar, but you might try other printer sites - Epson, HP, etc..

By: sebastienbailard

sebastienbailard — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 21:08:23 -0800

This is part of an imageboard called 4chan dedicated to papercraft and origami. I suggest you stay away from some of the parts of the sidebar like /b/ which is full of gross out pictures, porn, and neonazis.

This and this is fun too, cutting out manga or comic characters and posing them on your desktop.

By: derMax

derMax — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 21:27:28 -0800

Flying Pig has printable 3-D paper animation kits that are just awesome. Paper animation doesn't adequately describe the genius of what he creates. Most of the kits are for purchase (though very inexpensive considering the engineering that goes into them), but he has a few free downloads too.

The wife has made a couple of the pay kits, the flying spaghetti monster and Schroedinger's Cat, and they are both, well, awesome.

By: santojulieta

santojulieta — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 21:30:20 -0800

Library of Congress

Free Stock Images

Art Renewal Center

By: lekvar

lekvar — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 21:39:55 -0800

Ravensblight is Halloween-y!

Readymechs are hip!

As mentioned above, PocketMod is awesome!

By: logic vs love

logic vs love — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 22:29:01 -0800

the small object has a lot of super-cute downloads to print on the sidebar.
wee wonderfuls has adorable paper doll downloads.
holiday cards
paper skeletons
haunted paper toys

By: zengargoyle

zengargoyle — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 22:35:58 -0800

Second sebastienbailard 's 4chan /po/ (papercraft board). Third the "don't click anything else (except maybe /ck/ (cooking)) unless you are interested or know how to use eyebleach.

I totally abuse the work provided color printer and /po/ stuff... my cubicle is filled with Tachikoma and other various other color printer abuse things, all from /po/.

I'll sometimes give co-workers the PDF files to print and make their own, but never-ever would I send them to 4chan...

Anyway, yeah, lurk in /po/ and a little bit of scissors or an X-Acto knife, some glue, and lot's of patience and you'll never worry about how to abuse a printer again.

By: manyon

manyon — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 02:52:34 -0800

Open Source Resistance.
Print until The Man comes a-knockin'.

By: Gungho

Gungho — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 05:27:00 -0800

Paper model rockets: Ok, this is the stuff. I'm quite sure that some if these could be reenforced to fly, but even if they don't, they are very cool.

http://jleslie48.com/gallery_models.html (don't be discouraged by the term "GiftShop." These are all free)

http://rocketry.wordpress.com/ultimate-paper-rocket-guide/ (this is a list of links to other sites - more good stuff)

By: booth

booth — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 06:09:40 -0800

If you're looking for quantity, here's the "printables" tag at del.icio.us.

Here's another list: Useful Items You Never Knew You Could Print Out - The Ultimate Guide.

By: booth

booth — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 06:17:21 -0800

I have one of these dragons on my desk. (Watch the vid to see it in action.)

By: spasm

spasm — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 08:33:14 -0800

Seconding booth's dragon recommendation.

By: carpyful

carpyful — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 09:06:44 -0800

oo, I'm the first one to suggest the rasterbator!

You can use the rasterbator to print out huge versions of photos or posters to hang on your wall.

By: JPowers

JPowers — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 09:43:02 -0800

Unamerican.com.

By: p3t3

p3t3 — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:55:19 -0800

Speakerdog(go to one of the series galleries, and see the "fetch link" for pdf download) and PaperBird

By: chiababe

chiababe — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 14:27:30 -0800

fvox13 writes "Zug's Printer Pranks are a great set of 'leave behind' pieces. I once had the 'DO NOT DISCARD THIS SHEET' remain undiscarded by coworkers for a month or so, because, you know, you can't disobey a piece of paper..."

I printed the "DO NOT DISCARD THIS SHEET" one Monday afternoon. It's still sitting on top of the shredder in the copy room today.

By: gennessee

gennessee — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:43:33 -0800

Paperkraft.net will keep your printer cartridge supplier in business for a very long time.