DIY Dot Grid Paper

[nattyb]

Since I don't have a ton of money to spend on wonderful papers from exotic places like Japan and Korea and France but alas, I am a poor student and the luxury of exotic rag is far from accessible. Now some of the paper itself isn't really that great but it one in particular catches my eye every time I see it. Mainly it's because of the printing on the paper and not the paper itself. If you're like me, you love the order of a grid or lines but you hate to have the grid or lines clutter up your finished product. The dot grid paper that is featured in the Behance Action Method paper is one of those papers. The grid is there but visually invisible in the finished product.

 

I was searching the interweb and found a guy who has a bunch of .pdf files of that wonderful grid on A4 and legal sizes. So print your own dot grid! I love it and you can put it on whatever paper you want, which I have! I've also attached the file for your use!

Dot Grid A4.PDF

[mge01park]

Thanks for sharing that, great stuff! I bought some 32LB HP Premium Presentation paper on sale recently, going to try it with that.

[nattyb]

Thanks for sharing that, great stuff! I bought some 32LB HP Premium Presentation paper on sale recently, going to try it with that.

 

 

Oh good. I'm glad someone is as excited as I am about it!

[mooshi]

Thanks.

 

I print my own papers too- cornell, graph, lined, watermarked, etc.; Never thought about dot grid. That's cool. Thanks for sharing.

 

-- Moo

[nattyb]

Would you mind sharing some of your files? I think the more variations we have the less we'll be stuck buying from printers! I print mine on a laser printer, what do you print yours with?

 

Nathaniel

 

Thanks.

 

I print my own papers too- cornell, graph, lined, watermarked, etc.; Never thought about dot grid. That's cool. Thanks for sharing.

 

-- Moo

[mooshi]

I use my inkjet at home and the laser printer at work to print out my papers.

 

As for the files, I use this for Cornell notes, this and this for graph, lined, etc. From there, I would edit them to my liking (change the colours and make edit the lines to make them clearer) using Gimp. I'm a little iffy about posting up my files, as I believe it breaches their Terms of Use.

 

"Permission is granted to download, modify, and print the Paper designs that are available from this site. You may use the Paper for your personal, organizational, or business use. However, you may not distribute, republish, display, post electronically or mechanically, transmit, record, in any manner mirror, or reproduce electronic versions of the Paper designs without the prior written permission of Savetz Publishing. "

 

Though, I'm not sure if they're referring to their designs (unmodified) or "my" edited designs.

 

-- Moo

[nattyb]

I'm sure it pertains to your work too since it is derivative of their work. It's a bit unclear though if you modify the work significantly enough to be considered your own art work...I wouldn't know I'm not a IP lawyer...To bad they don't Creative Commons their files so we can use AND share them at will! Thanks for posting the links!

 

nattyb

 

I use my inkjet at home and the laser printer at work to print out my papers.

 

As for the files, I use this for Cornell notes, this and this for graph, lined, etc. From there, I would edit them to my liking (change the colours and make edit the lines to make them clearer) using Gimp. I'm a little iffy about posting up my files, as I believe it breaches their Terms of Use.

 

"Permission is granted to download, modify, and print the Paper designs that are available from this site. You may use the Paper for your personal, organizational, or business use. However, you may not distribute, republish, display, post electronically or mechanically, transmit, record, in any manner mirror, or reproduce electronic versions of the Paper designs without the prior written permission of Savetz Publishing. "

 

Though, I'm not sure if they're referring to their designs (unmodified) or "my" edited designs.

 

-- Moo

[irbyls]

I use my inkjet at home and the laser printer at work to print out my papers.

 

As for the files, I use this for Cornell notes, this and this for graph, lined, etc. From there, I would edit them to my liking (change the colours and make edit the lines to make them clearer) using Gimp. I'm a little iffy about posting up my files, as I believe it breaches their Terms of Use.

 

"Permission is granted to download, modify, and print the Paper designs that are available from this site. You may use the Paper for your personal, organizational, or business use. However, you may not distribute, republish, display, post electronically or mechanically, transmit, record, in any manner mirror, or reproduce electronic versions of the Paper designs without the prior written permission of Savetz Publishing. "

 

Though, I'm not sure if they're referring to their designs (unmodified) or "my" edited designs.

 

-- Moo

 

You are my HERO. That Cornell notesheet generator is incredible!

[Zarble44]

I've tried printing my own paper. Finding the forms or PDFs was never the problem. I just can't get satisfactory results.

 

LASER printer -- the toner is deposited ON the paper. If you draw a vertical line, you can feel the nib going across every horizontal line. Not dissimilar to driving through our parking lot and ignoring the speed bumps. Even a BIC ballpoint is sensitive enough to transmit the raised lines.

 

INKJET printer -- the paper form is more satisfactory, but the result isn't very permanent, as my hands seem to generate enough moisture to blur the ink, which is not permanent. Also, I've never owned an inkjet that wasn't pitifully slow.

 

Anybody else running into this? Or better yet, does anybody else have any solutions?

[Marek Badzynski]

not only dot-grids, but also many other options (squares, triangles...) are also available FREE from this site:

 

http://incompetech.com/graphpaper/

 

it creates a small one-line ad in the footer of the page, but you can probably live with it

[ZeissIkon]

INKJET printer -- the paper form is more satisfactory, but the result isn't very permanent, as my hands seem to generate enough moisture to blur the ink, which is not permanent. Also, I've never owned an inkjet that wasn't pitifully slow.

 

I print my own letterhead and faint lined paper with an inkjet, and haven't found the printer that slow -- and my printer is an HP DeskJet 722C, old enough that the local cartridge refill dealer says it's getting harder to find refillable cartridges (though HP still sells new ones, if one is desperate enough to pay their price). Printers and their drivers differ, but mine seems pretty efficient at skipping the blank space between lines, and doesn't take long at all to print a very light blue line across a sheet -- this is likely to be true for any inkjet, as long as your output doesn't include verticals, which would force the printer to do a 100% scan at printing speed, no skipping allowed.

 

BTW, the less ink you use, the less it will smear, the less each page will cost, and the more the lines will vanish into your writing. I haven't noticed any smearing with my line printed pages...

[mooshi]

I'm sure it pertains to your work too since it is derivative of their work. It's a bit unclear though if you modify the work significantly enough to be considered your own art work...I wouldn't know I'm not a IP lawyer...To bad they don't Creative Commons their files so we can use AND share them at will! Thanks for posting the links!

 

nattyb

 

Yeah, it's because of the fact that they don't have the Creative Commons that I didn't want to accidentally breach their Terms of Use. =/ No bueno. But really, using their pages as a "template" and then editing them in Gimp, Adobe Photoshop, maybe even MS Paint isn't so bad. Perhaps a little time consuming, but not bad.

 

 

You are my HERO. That Cornell notesheet generator is incredible!

 

haha Thanks. I generate mine with grids and I love it! Glad you've found it just as helpful.

 

-- Moo

[nattyb]

Have you tried a coated paper? I have found that Ink Jet Specific paper doesn't smear as much. Although I haven't used and FP on them. I'm curious about it. Perhaps I'll get some and try it.

 

I've tried printing my own paper. Finding the forms or PDFs was never the problem. I just can't get satisfactory results.

 

LASER printer -- the toner is deposited ON the paper. If you draw a vertical line, you can feel the nib going across every horizontal line. Not dissimilar to driving through our parking lot and ignoring the speed bumps. Even a BIC ballpoint is sensitive enough to transmit the raised lines.

 

INKJET printer -- the paper form is more satisfactory, but the result isn't very permanent, as my hands seem to generate enough moisture to blur the ink, which is not permanent. Also, I've never owned an inkjet that wasn't pitifully slow.

 

Anybody else running into this? Or better yet, does anybody else have any solutions?

[mhwombat]

Another possibility might be to make one sheet with very heavy lines, and then put it underneath the paper you're writing on. If the paper isn't too thick, the lines from the paper below might show through enough to guide you.

[Beechwood]

There are some more paper downloads on this site

 

http://www.mathsphere.co.uk/resources/MathSphereFreeGraphPaper.htm

 

and elsehwere on the site you will find some fun resources to help children with their maths

[TMLee]

Attempting to use the one from 'incompetech',

how do I print a full page WITHOUT the weblink at the bottom of the generated template ?

TIA

[zwingtip]

Attempting to use the one from 'incompetech',

how do I print a full page WITHOUT the weblink at the bottom of the generated template ?

TIA

 

Right click and save as. Then open the file on your computer (not from the website) and print

[jaspertyler]

diyplanner.com has a lot of templates as well Thanks for posting the dot grid! I can't wait to try it!

[TMLee]

Attempting to use the one from 'incompetech',

how do I print a full page WITHOUT the weblink at the bottom of the generated template ?

TIA

 

Right click and save as. Then open the file on your computer (not from the website) and print

 

 

Thanks much,

will try it out ...

[Aunt Jill]

diyplanner.com has a lot of templates as well Thanks for posting the dot grid! I can't wait to try it!

 

It seems to me that the DIY planner set of pages is leaner and more useful than it used to be. I could be wrong, but if you downloaded it before and it was unwieldy, you might want to try it again.

 

DIY Planner Pages

 

This is the horizontal 2-up version for Classic binders. It includes dot pages. I love using the different forms.