Atari 5.25 Printable Diskette Sleeve's

[venom4728a]

Hello, I purchased a 50 disk lot of DSDD Floppies of off EPAY that were new old stock but did not come with a Diskette Protection Sleeve. I spent quite a few hours trying to find a place to buy new Diskette Sleeve's but as far as I can tell, they are not available anywhere. So I started looking for a printable template and again I found nothing. So I made my own and added the ATARI Diskette LOGO's just for FUN.

 

I don't Know if anyone can use this but, here you go!

 

I Printed it on my Printer with scaling at 100% and they turn out pretty darn close to original.

 

Gonna see if I can find some tyvek paper and print off a couple hundred.

 

Best Regards

 

Robert Miller

[Bryan]

I found that 1.2MB floppies are worth less than 360KB ones these days, so sometimes you can get the HD ones cheap in bulk and just keep the sleeves.

[venom4728a]

After ii printed a few of these I found the black color I used for the outline may be too dark, I opened the file in ms paint again and did a fill with a really light shade of grey so its not so noticeable if you do not cut perfectly strait.

 

I didn't even try to find 1.2mb floppies, that might be a good alternative to use their sleeves.

[+Larry]

BEST Electronics used to have bunches of them and sold them in bulk. Tyvek, too (better than paper).

B&C had genuine Atari sleeves, but sold those in small lots and were definitely more expensive.

-Larry

 

Hello, I purchased a 50 disk lot of DSDD Floppies of off EPAY that were new old stock but did not come with a Diskette Protection Sleeve. I spent quite a few hours trying to find a place to buy new Diskette Sleeve's but as far as I can tell, they are not available anywhere. So I started looking for a printable template and again I found nothing. So I made my own and added the ATARI Diskette LOGO's just for FUN.

 

I don't Know if anyone can use this but, here you go!

 

I Printed it on my Printer with scaling at 100% and they turn out pretty darn close to original.

 

Gonna see if I can find some tyvek paper and print off a couple hundred.

 

Best Regards

 

Robert Miller

[Bryan]

Here's some 1.2M disks in boxes with sleeves (100 for $18): eBay Auction -- Item Number: 330450111862

[venom4728a]

Hey Thanks for the link, That price isnt too bad.

[venom4728a]

Want to apologize to all who downloaded the file the first time, I made a mistake and uploaded the wrong file. I just realized it today when I downloaded it to another computer to print. I subscribed and deleted the wrong file and the uploaded the correct picture. If anyone wants it I have it in a higher quality BMP.

 

pm me I can email it to you, its about 67mb.

 

 

 

Best regards

 

Robert Miller

[+Nezgar]

This was a fun thread to stumble across, printed and made one up this evening. Fiddly enough I wouldn't want to make more than a couple lol. I found that Paint.net did not honour the DPI setting (600) embedded in the PNG file, but PhotoShop would... So I've attached a PDF version that should print from Adobe Reader with accurate size if 'no scaling' is selected.

 

My LaserJet 2100 1200DPI mono laser does a good job of greyscale halftoning small enough you generally can't see it.

 

Interesting comparing the supposed 'Rev 3' sleeve vs my original 'Rev 1' sleeve side-by-side for comparison. Rev 1 had much more hyph-enation, and the dash bar across the front appears inverted in the 'Rev 3' (Dark inside, Light Outside, vice versa).

 

An original Tyvek sleeve on the left, the 'replica' using plain white paper (and my kids purple glue-stik) on the right:

sleeves.pdf

[+MrFish]

Cool idea.

 

I cleaned up the image, darkened the text and graphics a little, revised the bars to be true grayscale, rotated some graphics that were twisted on the page, and saved it as a PNG.

 

This printed out a lot better, even on my laser printer with its dying toner cartridge.

 

BTW, if you use XnView, you can print them out properly by selecting "Single - DPI" in the Page Layout.

 

I leave it to someone else to PDF if you like...

 

[Edit: I adjusted the spacing on the text and graphics for the back of the sleeve.]

 

Edited January 16, 2019 by MrFish

[+MrFish]

Here's one with radius corners on the fold-in flaps.

 

 

[+Stephen]

Hmm - wonder if you can print on Tyvek?

[BillC]

Hmm - wonder if you can print on Tyvek?

I haven't tried but laser printers can print on many materials, even clear plastic transparencies.

 

Staples sells Tyvek letter size:

https://www.staples.com/JAM-Paper-8-1-2-x-11-14-lb-Tyvek-Paper-White-50-Pack-2179214491/product_2329651?akamai-feo=off

 

PS:

I found another product on Amazon that I believe is also Tyvek, or a similar material:

https://www.amazon.com/Rite-Rain-All-Weather-Copier-8511/dp/B0016H1RYE/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&qid=1547671012&sr=8-10&keywords=tyvek+paper

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N5AZ6US/ref=sxbs_sxwds-stvpv2_3?pf_rd_p=6375e697-f226-4dbd-a63a-5ec697811ee1&pd_rd_wg=RYiKl&pf_rd_r=PHJV0ZJC2PRP197AF0J6&pd_rd_i=B01N5AZ6US&pd_rd_w=ef2TW&pd_rd_r=8ee2a13d-07e1-4197-95c2-325867cedec7&ie=UTF8&qid=1547671676&sr=3

Edited January 16, 2019 by BillC

[+MrFish]

Hmm - wonder if you can print on Tyvek?

 

Here's some info about it: Dupont - Printing on Tyvek

 

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Here's one with a little more fading between the gray bars.

 

Edited January 16, 2019 by MrFish

[+MrFish]

I printed one of these and cut it out. It turned out good, except for how the folded part meshes with the back.

It worked out fine with minor adjusted cutting and folding. But I'm going to edit the position of some of the lines

to make it work out better. I was thinking about this when I was editing it earlier; and there just needs to be a

slight variation between the fold line and the cut line for the back; so things are not too tight. I'll edit it later on

today or tomorrow when I've got some time; and then I'll test it out before posting the edit.

 

[Edit: Oh, and it does look better with the extra fading on the gray bars, as per my last edit/post.]

Edited January 16, 2019 by MrFish

[toddtmw]

I just ordered the Amazon paper. Can't wait to try it out!

 

It would be fun to recreate other disk sleeves. Bonus, Memorex, Verbatim, Maxell, etc....

[macsonny]

On 1/16/2019 at 5:10 PM, Nezgar said:

This was a fun thread to stumble across, printed and made one up this evening. Fiddly enough I wouldn't want to make more than a couple lol. I found that Paint.net did not honour the DPI setting (600) embedded in the PNG file, but PhotoShop would... So I've attached a PDF version that should print from Adobe Reader with accurate size if 'no scaling' is selected.

 

My LaserJet 2100 1200DPI mono laser does a good job of greyscale halftoning small enough you generally can't see it.

 

Interesting comparing the supposed 'Rev 3' sleeve vs my original 'Rev 1' sleeve side-by-side for comparison. Rev 1 had much more hyph-enation, and the dash bar across the front appears inverted in the 'Rev 3' (Dark inside, Light Outside, vice versa).

 

An original Tyvek sleeve on the left, the 'replica' using plain white paper (and my kids purple glue-stik) on the right:

sleeves.pdf 735.08 kB · 198 downloads

Does anyone have a blank version of the labels that are stuck to the floppy?

[bandit]

We Used to Ink Stamp Tyvek Sleves. Wizards, Dragons ect. I may still have a few new ones.

[bandit]

Here is one with Stamped picture and This is all the New Tyvek sleves I have left

 

[_The Doctor__]

camera glare washed whatever you are showing us out

[bandit]

2 hours ago, _The Doctor__ said:

camera glare washed whatever you are showing us out

That is White tyvek sleves, my last case.