Personally I use photoshop to cut and edit the USGS maps to get the areas I want, then print them out on Rite in the Rain paper (laser printer so I don't have to worry about ink running). It does get kind of unwieldy printing out the 1:24k maps on 8.5x11 size paper though. But its waterproof, I can do it at home and toner is dirt cheap ($.01/page). You could spend the money on larger format paper and take the USGS pdf files to a print shop.