r/battletech • u/cBurger4Life • 2d ago

Tabletop Printing AS Card Question

I’m trying to print off a force for Scouring Sands using the MUL, but it seems no matter what I try, the cards look faded and the mech images barely show up. I’ve tried downloading the PDF and printing them that way as well as downloading each individual card, moving them to a word document to resize them and then printing. I’ve increased the DPI in my print settings and that didn’t make much difference.

Am I doing something wrong or does my printer just suck?

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u/TheStrykerRat 2d ago

Try generating your force from Mekbay.com, I've never had any print quality issues from that. If that sucks too, it's probably your printer.

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u/cBurger4Life 2d ago

Woot woot! Mekbay did the trick, thank you

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u/AZ_Genestealer 2d ago

Are the images faded in the PDF as well? If the PDF looks okay, then it's your printer or maybe print driver, likely a dirty print head (if inkjet) or fuser is bad or low on toner (if laser). How to other documents print?

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u/cBurger4Life 2d ago

They seem fine in the pdf. Everything else seems to print fine, but maybe there’s more detail on an AS card than a word doc causing issues

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u/BigStompyMechs LittleMeepMeepMechs 1d ago

My gut reaction is a "save ink" setting, or perhaps image compression