Re: Cosmic Chasm Sideart

I TRY to go to Pinball Expo in "Chicago" each year.

WHAT DOES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH VECTOR?

Uh, one year they had a factory tour through the company that builds the cabinets
for Bally/Midway/Williams games. They were indeed using silkscreens to do the side
art. It was all quite interesting. Smaller pieces were being done manually, but
entire cabinet sides were being done in massive screening machines.

Paul Sommers wrote:

> Clay,
>
> Used to do T-Shirts about 20 years ago. The problem is registration. The inks
> shrink slightly when they start to dry - so you need to hit each color
> immediately after the other while still wet.
>
> The other problem is that the screen is not transparent, so you can't see
> where to exactly place the screen for the next color, and once the screen is
> down you can't reposition it.
>
> Then of course you need to produce the color seperated transparency, expose
> and develop each screen. A good single day work there.
>
> In a commercial printers they have several screen on a revolve so they do on
> color, lift the screen, turn the revolve, and place the next screen down -
> which has be aligned perfectly. And so on.
>
> If you go to a local T-Shirt place they may be able to do small runs. Most
> don't care what is to be printed on, but the set up costs for a 3 or 4 color
> would be...yikes!!!
>
> For small run I think you are still best going for inkjet on latex.
>
> I have found a print shop here in Sydney that does extremely large latex
> prints, big enough for the side of a cab, for about $80AUS ($40US).
>
> But the quality is never going to be as good as screen or offset. I'm trying
> to find details of a company in South Australia that does marquees. Maybe with
> the current exchange rate it would work better for you guys to get it done here.
>
> Cheers
> Paul
>
> Clay Cowgill wrote:
> >
> > >I'd like some thoughts on this as well. I'm trying to find a suitable
> > >solution to CPO and marquees reproduction on a one or two run basis... I
> > >know Atari did it on their prototypes.
> >
> > I don't know how much it would cost, but the thought had occurred to me to
> > simply put together a small-ish, manual silk-screening station.
> >
> > With that photo-sensitive masking stuff you can pretty much just print each
> > screen layer on transparencies in a laser printer (composite them together)
> > and expose the screen. Maybe a little manual touch-up afterwards. The
> > screens can all be washed and recycled.
> >
> > I'd guess with some experience and practice it would be quite practical to
> > do 4 or 5 color screens that way. It'd be time-consuming, but the cash
> > outlay wouldn't be *too* bad, and paint is cheap. ;-)
> >
> > (anybody work at a T-shirt silk-screening shop? :-)
> >
> > -Clay
> >
> > -Clay
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