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Over the last couple of weeks or so, I've been slowly swinging by the Kinkos and getting my various maps laminated - shocking how quickly these things piled up. Anyone else going to this extreme, or am I just being paranoid on their durability?
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Desslok wrote:Over the last couple of weeks or so, I've been slowly swinging by the Kinkos and getting my various maps laminated - shocking how quickly these things piled up. Anyone else going to this extreme, or am I just being paranoid on their durability? No, I have my maps laminated too.
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I appreciate the concern. I've never had a map laminated, but I store mine carefully (in plastic sleeves in a loose leaf binder), and also have doubles of most maps (will be nice to have a backup if one ever gets damaged, or make nice trading fodder if I don't end up needing them). I might consider laminating some of my favorites if I ever get down to my last one.
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addendum question: if you guys do laminate, how do you store them? My first experiment with rolling them up was a failure since they refused to stay flat when playing. Now I'm just keeping them under the futon frame - that seems to work just fine.
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Desslok wrote:addendum question: if you guys do laminate, how do you store them? My first experiment with rolling them up was a failure since they refused to stay flat when playing. Now I'm just keeping them under the futon frame - that seems to work just fine. lol, I just have them on the floor in my room. 
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A local friend and I use poster frames. the hobby store around he seems to always have a sale going. it's cheaper than laminating and the is no danger of getting bubbles.
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I have all my maps hot laminated (except the two new ones I just got). I purchased one of the tri-fold project things from the local office supply store and keep them in the middle to keep them flat. I keep the project thing under my bed. I also have a tube that I use for transporting to the local shop so the maps are never rolled more than two hours.
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I didn't want to spend the money for laminating every single map. Instead I measured a map and went to Lowes and bought a sheet of birch wood and a sheet of Plexiglas. Keeps the maps flat and all of them together in one spot. Cost me a little over $20. 
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Work has a laminate machine. It took me an hour to do all the maps and $12 in lamination...
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There are poster size top-loaders that fit the maps. I got 10 for $5.50 each, shipping included.
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How I care for my maps is secret, but I feed them only the finest paper, and they have the best tasting ink on the market to drink!
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spacefarmer wrote:A local friend and I use poster frames. the hobby store around he seems to always have a sale going. it's cheaper than laminating and the is no danger of getting bubbles. Seconded. The Wal-Marts in any college town have a flourescent line that sell for 5$ a pop. For the maps that are rare and I don't have doubles of, the Lowe's will give me plexiglass for the other side for like 2$.
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I have started getting mine laminated for £5 a pop. This is about half the price I thought I was gonna be paying.
But as for storage, I have an old poster size folder that I used in college for my art work. I kep art work in one side and the maps, unfolded in the other side. The original plan was to flatten them out so they would be less crap to play on. And also, now my maps are all flat, it makes it much easier to get them laminated.
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There is a teacher supply store in the mall here that laminates for about $1.50/ft, so each map costs me less than $5 to get done. Dont have them all finished yet, but most of the ones I play on frequently. She does a pretty darn good job too.
They are kept in a tube at home, and when I pick the one Im going to use for the day, it gets taken out of the tube, rolled up the opposite way it was in the tube, rubberbanded, and taken with me.
Generally, the car ride to the lgs gives it enough time so by the time I unroll it from being done the opposite way it was in the tube, its pretty flat.
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Five bucks? Gah! I'm green with envy - Kinkos usually does it for 16-ish dollars.
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I work at a building with that does them for 50 cents a foot or about $2 a map!
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Can I just ship mine to you to get done? (Not being overly serious.)
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Desslok wrote:addendum question: if you guys do laminate, how do you store them? My first experiment with rolling them up was a failure since they refused to stay flat when playing. Now I'm just keeping them under the futon frame - that seems to work just fine. I know some people who laminate use clothes hangers for pants with the clips on them. You can store a few maps with each hanger right in the closet and they hang straight. I personally use the 24x36" top loaders and prop them against a wall with a bookcase wedged to keep them upright. Easy for maintaining the map integrity, but not so fun to transport.
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Sometimes. Occasionally they take ink from my printer, he doesn't like that very much... I've told them to stop, but you know how some new maps are!
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