Printing PDF’s for RPG’s

I have to own to being a little bit old fashioned when it comes to gaming books, I do love a good physical book and in particular a good physical rulebook for RPGs.

And while I do appreciate it when small third party producers make small adventure packs or supplements to their gaming systems, its really sad that they can’t sit with the main books. So I’ve long looked at getting these things printed out, and while I have bitten the bullet a few times its never been very satisfactory either in terms of quality, usability or cost and none of them look like they go with the main published books.

But I’m pleased to say I found a really good company that ticks all the boxes and gives me exactly what I want at a sane price point, that company is https://doxzoo.com/ . Let me run through the settings, purchase, and results.

So my source materials are the 2 amazing RPG’s I am currently obsessed with:

The perfect Warhammer 40K RPG by Cubical Seven.
The excellent Dune RPG by Modiphius.

Both of these companies produce a ton of material and do very high-quality printed versions of their main stuff {{,the Artwork used by Cubical Seven and the hard cover character sheets by Modiphius are both stand out features}}. but they also do lots of smaller supplements that never seem to make it into a printed form.

Both companies supplements come in the form of well laid out PDFs, that have print-bleed areas, so are ideal for getting physically printed.

DoxZoo provide a huge variety of settings on their website that you can apply to any uploaded PDF and then previewed, the settings I have found work the best are:

Binding Form: Booklet
Orientation: Portrait
Paper size: Letter
Printed sides: Double sided
Print in: Colour
Paper colour: White
Paper finish: Matt (ultra smooth)
Paper weight: 100 gsm
Binding position: Left long edge
Card cover: None
Scale artwork: Scale to best fit
Corners: Square

This gives me an end result that is nearly impossible to tell from the main books.

Obviously price depends on the number of pages you want printing, but with 21 pages coming out at £4 including postage and packaging, its amazing value

Other than some scaling to cope with the hard back nature of the main books you can’t tell them apart.

The booklet format copes very well with the small number of pages. It’s basically just a magazine that uses staples rather than glue. This works out exceptionally well and folds out flat without damage for reference.

The quality is utterly perfect, it just is a professional print job

The format works well from just a few pages well into 50+

The only issue I’ve had at all is that sometimes if your cutoff is a little bit tight, then you might lose a couple of millimetres, but this is rare and has not ruined anything.

There you go, a good value service to solve an old problem.

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