So, how much did you guys pay to have it printed?

I checked with a local printshop and it came to:

$35 with a black and white spiral or stapled manual, everything else color.

$67 with a color spiral manual, everything else color.

$50 with a color stapled manual, everything else color.

How big a difference does having it stapled vs spiraled? How did you guys do it and what did it cost you?

I run the main book off my tablet. It can be slower at times but but I'm cheap. Just another option.

I printed the manual at work and stapled it. I would highly recommend the spiral bind, I wish I had that. For the rest of it, I printed at home on card stock, and went through pretty much a full set of ink, so it cost me about $30 to do it myself, and probably not as professional looking. I should have brought it to work and replaced the paper with card stock, but I didn't think about that.

I printed the book at home, cut and punched it, put it into a binder. Looks fine and I love having it at the table as compared to a screen. The cards, terrain, stat cards and AI cards I had done at the shop on the nice card stock, and the stat cards and AI cards were laminated. Super nice and I'm glad I did it, but I am a tad ashamed at what I paid to print a free expansion/game type. So all told I am in about $100. And that's with 20% off. However, being able to dry-erase the stat cards and having the stiff card ion clouds and turbolasers is boss.

I had everything printed at a print shop. Cost me about $150 AUD, but they printed and trimmed and bound the book for me and printed all the gas clouds and other terrain on sticker paper so I could attach it to card stock in my own time. They did a pretty good job, and after shopping around online, that was a pretty reasonable price. I believe you might be able to get it done cheaper if you're in the USA, but in Australia you're looking at about $150.

$78 USD. Had the manual spiral bound and printed in b & w. Card stock and color for the rest. Never thought of laminating the pilot cards. I'll do that for the next run. That's a brilliant idea!

Spiral for the book, will laminate the pilot cards this week. Everything else in acryl. Don't ask about the costs (high) but I doubt you can beat that when it comes to durability.

Spiral for the book, will laminate the pilot cards this week. Everything else in acryl. Don't ask about the costs (high) but I doubt you can beat that when it comes to durability.

I will say that I saw those acrylic vector overlays, and I would definitely like some of those. Very cool

I also paid a surprisingly high amount, though the quality is very good. (And I did it at FedEx, without shopping around, which was silly of me.)

Spiral for the book, will laminate the pilot cards this week. Everything else in acryl. Don't ask about the costs (high) but I doubt you can beat that when it comes to durability.

Oh gosh, can we have some pictures?

Spiral for the book, will laminate the pilot cards this week. Everything else in acryl. Don't ask about the costs (high) but I doubt you can beat that when it comes to durability.

Oh gosh, can we have some pictures?

Just look at the thread for Acrylic Hotness.

For the rule/mission book I printed it on regular paper, 2 pages per sheet (so that they sit side by side on one piece of paper, laid out just as if you had the manual opened up, displaying two pages), then I took all those and put them in sheet protectors in a binder, book style. Worked great, and only required about 20 pages worth of printing.

As for all the terrain and emplacements... Well, I decided to go the cheap easy simple route of designing them all in 3D and printing them out on my 3D printer. I'm almost done- just have to do the ion clouds. Look for another post from me when I get them finished and uploaded to thingiverse.com.

what ever you do get a spiral binder print of the book.....

I printed everything on a standard color printer and cut it out. The rulebook I punched and put in a binder. Practically no cost at all, at the price of all those obstacles and stuff being flat paper.

I printed everything on a standard color printer and cut it out. The rulebook I punched and put in a binder. Practically no cost at all, at the price of all those obstacles and stuff being flat paper.

How does paper fair? I imagine paper obstacles might stay in place better when placing moving templates and ships due to the near two-dimensionality that allows for everything to be placed on top and not pushed on the side.

I colour laser printed all the game props. i glued the space station onto 3mm foam board any then cut them out with a scalpel. I laminated the mines and the clouds

UK resident here. I printed the manual b&w at work and sent the rest to my local University print shop. They printed it all on 350gsm matt card for £19. My gf and I cut out the irregular shapes and gave the rest to one of the guys we're playing the campaign with, who has a guillotine. All I need to do now is put the manual into punch pockets and then into a file of some sort.

I printed everything on a standard color printer and cut it out. The rulebook I punched and put in a binder. Practically no cost at all, at the price of all those obstacles and stuff being flat paper.

How does paper fair? I imagine paper obstacles might stay in place better when placing moving templates and ships due to the near two-dimensionality that allows for everything to be placed on top and not pushed on the side.

The stuff glides around, yes. No way around that. But this isn't a competitive environment, so I can overlook a 1cm push of a nebula template

I printed everything on a standard color printer and cut it out. The rulebook I punched and put in a binder. Practically no cost at all, at the price of all those obstacles and stuff being flat paper.

How does paper fair? I imagine paper obstacles might stay in place better when placing moving templates and ships due to the near two-dimensionality that allows for everything to be placed on top and not pushed on the side.

The stuff glides around, yes. No way around that. But this isn't a competitive environment, so I can overlook a 1cm push of a nebula template

Laminate it and use blu-tack to keep them in place

I printed everything on a work printer, so it was free for me. What I did for the cards and templates was then glue it onto cardboard. I used different thickness stuff for different things. You can use cereal boxes or cardstock for the various cards. Just use a glue stick to glue one side down and then cut it out. Glue the other side on the back. I used old file covers for file cabinets that are laying around work because no one uses paper anymore.

For the terrain, I found thicker cardboard that was laying around the office. I kind of wish I'd done something different, though. Hobby stores have cheap foam that you can buy for these sheets. I think they are used for kids crafts. I'd glue the templates on to them and cut them out. The rubber foam material is the kind that won't move around on a table top.

I used a site called blurb to do a "pdf to book" for the manual. It came out really nice! I got 10 printed for my local x-wing group as well. Here's a link to it. They're listing $6.35 per book (not sure how much shipping might be).

http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/invited/5949536/9b97397c69293e0ab9378e20065409cb52857f9d

For printing the other components, I used shutterfly.com. I used their photo paper to make the pilots' cards etc. I used their 8x11inch calendar to print out the clouds terrain, buildings etc... the print quality was pretty awesome!

Funny you should mention printing it all, I just did it this past weekend.

These are the rates at my local Fedex/Kinkos:

0.30 - 1 black and white page

0.59 - Color page

What I printed and how so, as well as reasoning:

Rulebook (80 pages) in black and white, front and back - 10.40

Front deck (10 pages) in color, single page each - 5.90

Stat Cards (pages 1-5) in color, single page each - 2.95 (I decided not to print the character stat cards. I will probably be using index cards to keep record of pilots.)

Terrain (15 pages) in color, single page each - 8.85

Back deck - Did not print. I instead backed the front deck on cardstock.

All of them were printed on 8.5'x11' paper. Everything, with tax included (Hawaii if you need to know), came out 29.42.

To help with things staying in place, I backed all the terrain pieces with adhesive foam sheets like seen here:

http://www.walmart.com/ip/Peel-Stick-Foam-Sheets-8.8-X11.8-6-Pkg-Basic-Colors/32884466

They were like 2.85ish for a pack of 6 foam sheets at Walmart. Backing the 15 pages of terrain, I bought 3. Peel the side off, stick the printed terrain on it, and cut it out with a mix of an exacto knife and scissors. Took me a few hours as I watched a movie.

So there you have it, basically everything for less than 40 bucks. I placed the mission cards in card sleeves backed by MTG advertisement cards. The pilot cards I backed with cardstock. The maneuvers I did not cut out and placed them with a sheet protectors in a folder. The rules I put in a 3 ring binder.