Make Your Own Grid Paper

100 38 12 years ago

Oh wow. I love this idea (edit: AND execution!).. I guess it's a minor bummer that I assume my printer won't print full-bleed but still... Things I'd love even more: Indications of exact sizing and the ability to choose what shade of gray/black to be printed.

vobios• 12 years ago

This one has some of the options your are looking for such as spacing, color, and page border: http://incompetech.com/graphpaper/

twic• 12 years ago

Gridzzly (and why is this not gridzz.ly?) is nice and all, but the Incompetech generator is in fact much better. Still, we're startup fanboys, we're not that bothered about substance if there's some nice style on offer.

kaitai• 12 years ago

The Incompetech has some useful ones like polar and triangular, too.

tpsc• 12 years ago

Another option: http://paperkit.net/

avmich• 12 years ago

I'd like to be able to add my own pattern - because few of somewhat useful are missing and for other reasons.

x43b• 12 years ago

This is a fun website. I made my own grid paper in undergrad. It started late one night after all the bookstores were closed and I ran out mid-problem in dynamics class. The Professor took off points for not using grid paper so I made my own out of Excel grids(I wrote on the flip side). I didn't lose any points and continued for the remainder of the semester. At the time, the university printer computer labs did not have a printer quota.

Zikes• 12 years ago

I'm surprised it doesn't have a feature for intermittent breakpoints, like every 5th or 10th interval. I find that very useful for small size grid-lined paper.

Still, this is very nice, it's easy to see the potential for other features.

dredmorbius2• 12 years ago

Or greenbar.

mayoff• 12 years ago

My favorite graph paper: http://whitelines.se/function/

nacs• 12 years ago

They have a patent on white lines on slightly greyed paper? Amazing.

mongol• 12 years ago

Maybe not the idea itself but a method to print it?

jsherer• 12 years ago

Here's the patent: http://www.google.com/patents/EP1868820B1?cl=en

Kliment• 12 years ago

Make sure to give those immoral fucks not the slightest bit of income.

psychometry• 12 years ago

Great idea, but a buggy website and their Amazon store is displaying ridiculous prices for some items: http://www.amazon.com/Whitelines-Orange-Glue-Squared-Notepad...

slang800• 12 years ago

The 2300USD listing is from some separate seller called "Stork Group", not Whitelines. And they describe it as "Brand new and unread!", so they probably have no idea what the item is.

aye2• 12 years ago

Not to mention the fact that they do a terrible idea conveying what they're actually selling -- there's nothing that says simply "it's grey paper with white lines."

"On Whitelines there is no visual interference between the lines and the pen colour."

So, the lines on the paper are different depending on the color of the ink I'm writing with?

robotys• 12 years ago

And i've just thought about this like yesterday on my own.

metaverse0• 12 years ago

Beautiful. Can someone please make a printable version...

aye2• 12 years ago

    .line {
        background: rgb(233, 233, 233);
        height: 3.125em;
        border: 0.25em solid white;
        width: 100%;    
    }

nthitz• 12 years ago

http://gridzzly.com/getGrid.php?bunka=sit1&rozestup=3&width=... seems to crash any browser I throw at it. Granted you are trying to load a very large image, but still was surprised. It may 500 Internal Server Error I'm guessing if server runs out of memory while trying to make these large images.

bigd• 12 years ago

I'm assuming OP is the author:

very nice idea, very nice execution. Few things that imho need to be fixed (probably fast fixes): 1) Ensure that the print settings are correct. i.e. the pattern get splitted on two pages, for no reason. 2) resizing the browser window stretches/squeezes the picture. You shoud probably listen to the resize events and re-trigger the generation, change the patterns to some css, or simply set the generated image as cover. 3) translate the code in english. In softwares, having standards is a good thing.

mikhuang• 12 years ago

looks fun! being able to input specific dimensions would be nice, e.g. 5mm or .25" grid

Intermernet• 12 years ago

I agree, the only thing this is missing is actual units (both metric and imperial).

chrissyb• 12 years ago

Additionally being able to add a scale bar would be a tidy feature.

jws3• 12 years ago

I still buy preprinted grid paper and staff paper. It is extraordinarily difficult to force a printer to use the exact same width on each line. There are just too many layers of abstraction between the browser/document and the hardware.

ohwp• 12 years ago

Most of the time the 'smart' printer software is to blame. But I think if you stick to world units and print at 100% you will be fine.

Remember that dpi only controls print quality not print measurements. One cm printed at 300dpi will have the same length as one cm at 72dpi.

jws3• 12 years ago

The problem comes in the thin lines. If they don't fall exactly on the hardware pixel boundaries they will vary in weight. If you can get the printer to think in monochrome instead of some larger dithering cell you have a chance.

xrt• 12 years ago

This is a doddle in PostScript. http://www.jasonpratt.org/software/graphpaper/

easyfree37• 12 years ago

Thank you.

WWLink• 12 years ago

My canon mx860 can actually do this straight from its menu haha. There's a few options for college ruled, wide ruled, and grid paper. This web app has more choices, but the printer makes some amazing paper as is :D

imron• 12 years ago

On a related note, for grid paper for practising Chinese (or Japanese) characters, check out my site: http://www.hanzigrids.com/

interfacesketch• 12 years ago

[Shameless plug] If you want A4 or US letter gridded paper for sketching a mobile, web or tablet UI, I have a bunch of free ones on my site.

http://www.interfacesketch.com

dredmorbius2• 12 years ago

Seems like something TeX or LaTeX could do.

mjcohen• 12 years ago

How about fancier graphing paper: Gaussian, log-normal with specified parameters, ...

Make Your Own Grid Paper

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