How best to print google topo maps for hiking purposes
 

I'm just curious if there is a better way to print Google topological
maps for hiking purposes?

Here's why google topo maps have an advantage:
a. Hiking maps, by their very nature, get destroyed in use, so, you want
a cheap and small set of maps.
b. USGS maps are too big and too expensive to be useful for rough hiking
(i.e., hiking in steep hills where the map takes a beating).
c. You often want to annotate the map ahead of time, with route
information or whatever, which is best done on a computer that knows GPS
coordinates

Now here is the "printer" problem:
A. Every time *I* print a google topological map in B&W (the only printer
I have), the isocline lines come out far too light to be useful.
B. I don't have a color printer (although I guess I could send it off to
a printer).

QUESTION:
Is there a better way to print Google topological maps?

How best to print google topo maps for hiking purposes
 

Eddie Powalski wrote

I'm just curious if there is a better way to print
Google topological maps for hiking purposes?

Here's why google topo maps have an advantage:
a. Hiking maps, by their very nature, get destroyed
in use, so, you want a cheap and small set of maps.
b. USGS maps are too big and too expensive to be useful for rough hiking
(i.e., hiking in steep hills where the map takes a beating).
c. You often want to annotate the map ahead of time, with route
information
or whatever, which is best done on a computer that knows GPS
coordinates

Now here is the "printer" problem:
A. Every time *I* print a google topological map in B&W (the only
printer I have), the isocline lines come out far too light to be
useful.
B. I don't have a color printer (although I guess I could send it off to a
printer).

Or just buy the cheapest inkjet printer you can find. Costs peanuts.

QUESTION:
Is there a better way to print Google topological maps?

How best to print google topo maps for hiking purposes
 

On Fri, 27 Sep 2013 02:49:36 +1000, Rod Speed wrote:

Or just buy the cheapest inkjet printer you can find. Costs peanuts.

I swore off ink long ago, after dealing with HP Costco injets.

Never again will I own an inkjet printer (which can't easily be refilled
due to shenanigans by the manufacturer).

How best to print google topo maps for hiking purposes
 

Eddie Powalski wrote
Rod Speed wrote

Or just buy the cheapest inkjet printer you can find. Costs peanuts.

I swore off ink long ago, after dealing with HP Costco injets.

I didn’t.

Never again will I own an inkjet printer

I own two of the same model.

(which can't easily be refilled due to
shenanigans by the manufacturer).

I got the last of the Canons that don’t have
chipped carts and when another example
showed up at a garage/yard sale got
another of those in case I need any parts.

No need to refill at all, the carts are so cheap
off ebay that I just got a box of 20 of each
color for peanuts and will likely end up tossing
the last of them because I print so rarely.