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Fantasy, Hex, Hex Map, Hexes, Maps, Melee, OSR, RPG, SJGames, Steve Jackson Games, The Fantasy Trip
Since I have a ledger-sized printer, I’ve been experimenting with maps for the Fantasy Trip that fit within the 11 x 17 inch page. This map is drawn using the Legacy Edition 1.5 inch hexes (the same scale as the nice big floppy mouse-pad style maps and the megahex boxes). If I switch to the classic Fantasy Trip 1″ hexes I could manage some significantly larger and more complex maps in the space provided.
Adding a few tiles from the various megahex boxes also allows this to expand in just about any direction.
While I’ve got you here for this The Fantasy Trip map, if you are a supporter of my Patreon Campaign, you can also find a whole selection of Legacy Edition sized hex pages (up to a full 36″ x 48″ poster page) that you can download and print – Patreon Exclusive Hex Selections.
The maps on Dyson’s Dodecahedron are released for free personal use thanks to the support of awesome patrons like you over on Patreon. Every month 400 patrons come together to make these releases possible. You can help too in order to keep the flow of maps coming and to improve their quality – and even get a map of your own!
Dyson's Dodecahedron 
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I would be interested in what kind of printer you have. I have been looking at HP wide format printers just for tabletop maps lately.
My wide-format printer is a Brother MFC-J6535DW
It is the best “bang for the buck” wide format printer on the market, but the print heads on Brother printers are a REAL pain in the ass to clean.
Wow – nicely priced! Thanks for the pointer.
Never use the “cleaning mode” from the printer, it makes the heads clog up worse. Instead there’s a trick where you START the cleaning mode to unlock the heads, immediately unplug the printer once they start to traverse, open her up, push the print heads to the far left where there’s a sponge designed to wipe them down, and then spray windex into the sponge.
Let it sit for 30-60 minutes with the heads against the sponge, then turn it back on again.
Wow – that’s the kind of super specific procedure that comes from hard won experience and a lot of failed prints. How often do you have to do this?
I think I’ll start reading the reviews a lot more closely before I hit the ‘buy’ button!
I’ve only had to do it once – one set of heads were getting clogged, I ran the cleaning sequence three times to get them unclogged, but in the process managed to completely clog ANOTHER set of heads.
Finally I did a bunch of research on the issue and discovered a tutorial on how to fix it (with most ink jets, a quick wipe down with rubbing alcohol over the heads is all you need in these cases, but there’s ZERO access to the heads on the Brothers)