Printable Scale Rulers?

riknight1972 · Post by **riknight1972** » Tue Nov 04, 2008 2:07 am

my wife dos graphic design and I was just going to design a master wall chart so i can have on hand

AdamSouza · Post by **AdamSouza** » Fri Nov 28, 2008 7:23 pm

He's right these are great.

Thank you for taking the time to put them together.

DX-SFX · Post by **DX-SFX** » Sat Nov 29, 2008 12:24 pm

It goes without saying that everyone has checked their printer for accuracy? I don't mean the resolution quality but the dimensional accuracy. Scan and then print a piece of graph paper and then compare the original with the copy. It might surprise a few.

If you want to check if any error comes from the scanner, turn the graph paper at ninety degrees, scan it a second time and then turn the resulting image at ninety degrees again on the computer. Print it. If the second differs from the first, it's a scanner error.

Graphics created in the computer are nearly always accurate. How accurately the printer transports the paper through the printer when printing them is usually the problem i.e. the width of things are usually reproduced accurately but their length can wobble.

Agent Orange · Post by **Agent Orange** » Tue Mar 09, 2010 12:16 pm

Googling what the OP was looking for - I found this thread - I know its a few years old now but I really need to get hold of a 1/600 rule and the logistics of doing it myself are making my brain hurt!

Any help would be VERY much appreciated!

Cheers,

steve

Kylwell · Post by **Kylwell** » Tue Mar 09, 2010 12:41 pm

I'll get one up later today.

Agent Orange · Post by **Agent Orange** » Tue Mar 09, 2010 2:30 pm

Thank you very much!

An officer AND a Gentleman

steve

Kylwell · Post by **Kylwell** » Tue Mar 09, 2010 3:46 pm

Try this: www.hungrylizardstudio.com/ssm/1-600.pdf

NNYGamer · Post by **NNYGamer** » Tue Mar 09, 2010 3:52 pm

I just printed something on my coputer on photo paper @ 6000DPI (that's what it said it could do) but even at 1/4 inch it took over a minute. I was seeing if a picture would look ok at that scale/DPI to use for mini standees for the 1/350 refit.

Ziz · Post by **Ziz** » Tue Mar 09, 2010 5:39 pm

How about 537 and 650 scales for the Ertl Trek stuff?

Also, one important note on printing them - when you hit "Print", set "Page Scaling" to "None" or the rulers won't print at the right size.

naoto · Post by **naoto** » Tue Mar 09, 2010 7:02 pm

Suggestion: You might want to add a "standard" 1:1 scale to the scale rulers -- that way there's a built-in "sanity check" so we can verify that it printed properly. (not that I would require it -- it only takes a wee bit of simple math to verify against a standard ruler

).

Agent Orange · Post by **Agent Orange** » Wed Mar 10, 2010 6:34 pm

Thanks very much for the ruler and you time!

Its already come in very handy

steve