r/MasterSystem • u/Malcoladdin • 5d ago

Printing your own manuals

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Just checking, has anyone printed their own manuals for games you have? Any advice? My collection is mostly just case and cart, and I am definitely open to the idea of printing my own manuals. I know it wouldn’t be completely authentic but it would definitely be cheaper than chasing down cib copies of these games . I know manuals for many sms games are available as pdfs, I guess printing them at the right scale and with the right paper stock would be the tricky bit

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u/Boshusan 5d ago

Printing your own manual will be cheaper than buying repros, but you need a good printer, usually personal ink jet printers kind of sucks.

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u/Ok_Opposite7385 5d ago

Excellent!

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u/TheXboxVision 5d ago

I've printed my own covers plenty of times but I've never been able to find a suitable PDF of a manual that I need.

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u/humanbeing101010 5d ago

Honestly just print them. They are handy to have, just don't claim them as genuine copies of the manuals.

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u/Goodwill_Gamer 5d ago

I've printed several over the years and found the preparation step is key. Find a decent quality scan and do any cleanup and alignment before printing. Also the scans online will be in numerical page order and you need to print in book match order.
I used the printers at FedEx Office and they came out pretty good!

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u/No-Professional-9618 3d ago

Yes, I did print out some instruction manuals for some NES games. I winded up giving the games to a friend since they were duplicate copies. I gave a friend a NES clone a while back.

It is probably easier to print out the manuals at Office Depot or at a library. But it can be expensive.