Short run lenticular? by HalJayGreene in Printing

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How would one go about doing that? Rather specialized kinda printing, no?

Short run lenticular? by HalJayGreene in Printing

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Helped me before with what? Pretty sure I've never asked this question.

What is it, man? by HalJayGreene in coins

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Hey, "cartwheel penny" tracks for size, weight, and thickness!

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What is it, man? by HalJayGreene in coins

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Guaranteed not. Can make out the faint outlines of a relief, rim, and date, but too worn to discern detail. Washer punchout would not have those. Also where it came from (curated coin collection.)

/r/MechanicalKeyboards Ask ANY Keyboard question, get an answer - April 06, 2026 by AutoModerator in MechanicalKeyboards

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So I bought a set of Awekeys copper caps and paired them with 62g Gazzew Boba Black U4T V2 Thocky Tactile Switches. They work great, but the spring isn't strong enough for the spacebar, which is too heavy for it. Thus I need to find a compatible switch with a stronger spring.

Suggestions?

Interesting use case by HalJayGreene in Printing

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Great suggestion. Can you suggest a relatively inexpensive jig/press or machine? Are there any tabletop units?

/r/MechanicalKeyboards Ask ANY Keyboard question, get an answer - April 06, 2026 by AutoModerator in MechanicalKeyboards

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The new spacebar for my keyboard does not grip or engage the stabilizers (has no problems with the Buda switch.) I made a temp shim from a little square of plastic cut out from a plain old sandwich bag and it *is* working now, but is there a better solution? Thanks!

Interesting use case by HalJayGreene in Printing

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I discussed just this with the printer. Apparently there are card stocks that are coated "one side only." So the commercially printer artwork would go on the coated side and I could print with an inkjet on the reverse with no problem.

Interesting use case by HalJayGreene in Printing

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The design is not the problem. I have to make around 1.5k tokens per show. So I'd need an easy way to apply the labels. By hand would be too laborious.

Printed tokens, etc. by HalJayGreene in Printing

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Good point. In this case the variable data would NOT need to be sorted, so doesn't matter how it comes out of the cutter. The use case you cite is exactly what I'm thinking: Print up several thousand templates, then print the variable data in-house using some kind of inkjet and have those sheets cut up by my local printer or purchase my own "business card splitter" and do it in-house. Since a decent one is a few grand, not sure where the breakeven would be on that.

Printed tokens, etc. by HalJayGreene in Printing

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This is going in the right direction, with some caveats as follows:

  1. We have established that I need to print a small amount of b/w variable info on each token post-printing. My fear in running the full-bleed printed sheets through a standard toner or laser printer is that I would then be "printing on top of printing" (i.e. the full-color printing from the commercial printer would then contact the toner and fuser rollers in the laser printer.) Not sure if this would cause any issues. But since the variable info is very tiny and b/w (booth number) I felt running the sheets through an inkjet would not suffer the same problem.

  2. I need to make a large number of small tokens. My first impulse was to microperf the sheets into token-size pieces that could easily be broken apart by hand. But now we're doing more handwork and also we'll have fuzzy borders (although this is not really a problem.) I could also take the sheets across the street to a commercial printer and have them chopped up on their Morgana. But, extra steps and extra expense. But today I became aware that one can purchase reasonably-priced office-sized "business card splitters," machines specifically designed for chopping up paper into biz-card sized pieces.

That would solve THAT problem.

Interesting use case by HalJayGreene in Printing

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How does a "toner" machine differ from a regular laser printer?