Crafty ? - anyone know how to print on newsprint?

papagena

Totally random, but my DH needs to fake a few newspapers for a show he's working on, and he's having a hard time figuring out where to get blank newsprint from or a good equivilant (the local paper isn't being helpful at the moment) and even if he had it, how to print on it (we don't have a large format printer).  He does need to check one or two places, but just curious if you crafty girls had tried to do anything like that. 

Sapphyr

You can get blank newsprint sometimes from office supply stores but also from moving stores/storage places. As for putting print on it how about cutting some of the extra paper and feeding it through your printer and then gluing it onto the blank master sheet of paper?

papagena

Apparently, it has to be one full sheet for how they use it.  Thanks for the ideas, though!

nsees

Wish I had some answers but has he checked with a local printer or local office supply store like Staples/Office Max.  I wonder if they would have any ideas.

jennterrell

find somewhere like a print shop or Staples that will take a PDF and print it on a drafting or wide format printer/plotter. It won't be on the thin newsprint, but usually their standard plotter/printer paper is nothing fancy. They may not be able to do double sided though.

Real newsprint is usually printed on rolls on a big press. 

Only other option i could think of would be to try printing onto heat-transfer paper and then ironing that onto large sheets of newsprint.

Sapphyr

The paper comes in a package of 25 or 50 sheets. So you could still do a layout by cutting and glueing "articles" to your paper and using that for your prop. Also one other thought check your local high school and see if they have a printing press and if they could do it for you? I know my high school did/does.

Dobie_Mama

The newspaper won't give you the unusable ends of the printing rolls?  They're jerks.  You can just pack up that sweet baby, come visit me, and we'll get some from the paper here.  

Jennicap

go to any art store (chain or local) and get a pad of newsprint paper, its a basic sketch pad and should run you only a couple bucks