Marquee Size Question

[Blueic5]

Hi

Ive been making my cabinet for about 2 years now on and off I know its taking ages.. 

Anyway ive finally got an LCD mounted and started looking at the marquee.  The opening I have is 660mm (26") wide and the height including the 18mm mdf thickness is 17cm .  Now my question is if I had a marquee made up and incased in plexiglass to those dimensions the top and bottom 18mm will be hidden by my plastic angle bead holding it in place is this normal?  I planned to get a street fighter 2 replica marquee made up but concerned about losing the top and bottom of it.  Should I be asking for  it to be made with a black 18mm strip at the top and bottom im a little confused?

[yotsuya]

Now my question is if I had a marquee made up and incased in plexiglass to those dimensions the top and bottom 18mm will be hidden by my plastic angle bead holding it in place is this normal?

Extremely normal.

[EMDB]

Hi

Ive been making my cabinet for about 2 years now on and off I know its taking ages.. 

Anyway ive finally got an LCD mounted and started looking at the marquee.  The opening I have is 660mm (26") wide and the height including the 18mm mdf thickness is 17cm .  Now my question is if I had a marquee made up and incased in plexiglass to those dimensions the top and bottom 18mm will be hidden by my plastic angle bead holding it in place is this normal?  I planned to get a street fighter 2 replica marquee made up but concerned about losing the top and bottom of it.  Should I be asking for  it to be made with a black 18mm strip at the top and bottom im a little confused?

You should not add a full 18mm black strip as you might see it just a bit. Add a couple of mm bleed (larger image than visible area). Just make sure there is no important part of your marquee at the top and bottom edges:



I added temporarily borders to see the final result (the visible part) during design time:

[Blueic5]

Thanks all,  now I just need some artwork in the right size which is proving harder than I thought. 

[JDFan]

Thanks all,  now I just need some artwork in the right size which is proving harder than I thought.

Found one that was close in the SFII resources HERE ( http://segamadebaddecisions.wordpress.com/2012/06/19/street-fighter-2-art-resources/ ) and resized it for you -- It has about 40mm on the sides and 20mm on the top and bottom that can be covered without problems so should fit what you need.

Dropbox Link to fullsize png : https://www.dropbox.com/s/mqkq099em4slq47/sfii.png

[Blueic5]

nice one what program do you use to re size it and whats the best method btw out of curiosity?  Also whats the best method to print these things on a standard inkjet printer?