Looking into printing and laminating a large 128 person double elim bracket on something like a 3'x4' sheet and was wondering if anyone had any experience or helpful ideas. I've looked into FedEx/Kinkos and it was about $130, Office Max was only about $50 but it's not laminated, and printyourbrackets.com only goes up to 64 from what I can tell. I'm sure there are other options out there, hoping that folks could offer some suggestions. Thank you for your help!
Help with printing/laminating large bracket
- Thread starter GriffinG
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Why not just use the Ingen software and do away with paper brackets? $130 doesn't sound too bad for a large lamination. You might contact Fast Signs or any other signage company in your area.
just buy a 15 dollar dry erase board and spend an hour with pin stripe tape......
it can then be easily modified if needed
it can then be easily modified if needed
Cheapest place I have found is Staples.
Printing from a digital file a few months ago.
Printing 2 ft x 3 ft Poster $30.00
Laminating $15.00
Less 10% (club had a corporate card)
Canadian money
Printing from a digital file a few months ago.
Printing 2 ft x 3 ft Poster $30.00
Laminating $15.00
Less 10% (club had a corporate card)
Canadian money
self made
If there's a copy shop around, you could download a bracket PDF and let them print it out in the format you like.
A tube of spraying glue should be just a few $$, with that you can glue it onto a piece of paperboard.
After that just buy a roll of self gluing transparency film (for school books) and put it on.
This will give you a cheap brackets, that can be re-written again and again with a washable pen...
(Hope I've expressed this right with my humble English)...
If there's a copy shop around, you could download a bracket PDF and let them print it out in the format you like.
A tube of spraying glue should be just a few $$, with that you can glue it onto a piece of paperboard.
After that just buy a roll of self gluing transparency film (for school books) and put it on.
This will give you a cheap brackets, that can be re-written again and again with a washable pen...
(Hope I've expressed this right with my humble English)...
Cheapest place I have found is Staples.
Printing from a digital file a few months ago.
Printing 2 ft x 3 ft Poster $30.00
Laminating $15.00
Less 10% (club had a corporate card)
Canadian money
The price is cheaper at Staples if you get black-and-white, like maybe $1/square foot. They had a large format plotter where I went that I think could do 3 ft by very_long.
I uaed to consider using a dry erase board, even for some very small 16 players or less tourneys. What I found out was....each event was a slice of history. With no paper trail, and at the time there was no computers involved, without the chart, complete with the scores of each match, the history of the event was lost or forgotten.
We made up 8,16,32, 64, and 128 player sheets with our logos, and boxes for time and table assignments and scores. At the end of each show the pool room had the option of keeping the chart so those that couldn't attend could just look for their favorite player and see who won by how many games and how much they won with the prize money having its own place on the chart.
We had them all professionally folded up to the size of a legal piece of paper so that they would be easy to store in just a folder. I don't know, maybe I am just a paper hoarder, but I smile every time I go back and look at one of my major events and see who beat who by how much and how much they won.
We made up 8,16,32, 64, and 128 player sheets with our logos, and boxes for time and table assignments and scores. At the end of each show the pool room had the option of keeping the chart so those that couldn't attend could just look for their favorite player and see who won by how many games and how much they won with the prize money having its own place on the chart.
We had them all professionally folded up to the size of a legal piece of paper so that they would be easy to store in just a folder. I don't know, maybe I am just a paper hoarder, but I smile every time I go back and look at one of my major events and see who beat who by how much and how much they won.
