Context of this post (edited in because post referenced was changed completely):
Poster aramis raised concern on poster MisterX deeming the procedure of making counters using ‘industrial machines’ and coloured prints by the local friendly copy-shop for about 0.50$ a ‘suitable DIY process’; questioning the overall usefulness of said post.
I am sorry if I did actually offend you which, reading your response, I seem to have done. It was not intended.
Of course, no industrial machine is needed. A standard office-scale copier works fine. If you use greyscale, even some printers some people might have at their homes will be able to do the job. My experience is that coloured printing is more problematic with thick paper than greyscale.
Of course, you can use thinner paper. For 1" counters, 120–180g/sqm paper works fine. This should also do the job. I would not recommend to use this combination for counters above 2", though, since they tend to get “wobbly”. So you can definetly reduce the $0.50/sheet.
A standard A4-sheet (a bit, but not much larger than US letter) will produce 77 counters on a 7x11 grid. Thus, even with coloured printing at your local copy shop with .5$/sheet on both sides (making 1$) I would go with about 1.5$ per sheet, making about 2ct per counter. Not including the time spent on designing the draft.
I do, indeed, consider this a suitable DIY process. But that’s just my counter, or, as they say, my 2ct.
Edit: I, personally, would say that the time spent on design would be counted as “hobby time”, like people spend time on painting their miniatures. But that is just another counter of mine.
