OK, I finally got the chance to take some photos and mount my marquee. A little background to my project. I have a dedicated Trog Machine. Parts specific to a dedicated Trog are hard to come by. I have multiple Marquees for Trog kits, but they marquees in the kits are taller and less wide. I needed to add a inch and a half to the sides to make it fit in my dedicated machine. I photoshopped a new marquee with the needed width and stpcore printed it out for me. Here are my results.
Side by SideOn the top is an original Silk Screen printed Trog Marquee. Below is the modified extra wide one stpcore printed for me. The biggest thing I noticed is that the black levels are a bit dimmer. The black outlines are turned to a dark gray. My guess is that the material must be suck in the ink quite a bit, and it is probably a result of the material rather than the printer.
On the flip side. White was brilliant! Very bright, vibrant and pure. A marquee with a lot of white space is going to be stunning unlit and lit. Compare the white space around the word "TROG"
ColorI have to admit, when I sent this off to stpcore, I was in a panic about color. All my test prints on my home photo printer and the big expensive color printer at my work looked like garbage. Have you ever tried to print pure cyan on a printer? You would think that a CMYK based printer would be able to print pure cyan. Nope. It all came out as medium blue. Bloop, the dino in this picture was coming out about the same color as the background. Needless to say. stpcore nailed it. All the colors look great.
SharpnessThe marquee was very sharp and detailed. If you press your face against it, you can see signs that it was printed, but from a viewing distance of only a foot away, none of that visible in the least.
I actually put the sharpness to the test. Unbeknownst to stpcore (but knownst to me) I but a micro-signature into my marquee. In the splatter background I added to the left and right margins, I hid "VIGO - 2015". It came out perfectly sharp and clear.
With PlexiI wanted to show this because the plexi does a lot to add a glossy sheen and actually brings back a bit of the saturation lost due to the material being used. It looks good!
BacklitJaw dropped. Beautiful. My only complaint is that I need a wider light than the stock one in place now, as I now want to capture every little bit of the soft glow of electric sex gleaming from the marquee space with this beautiful translite in place.
I want to include a close up of Trog here, because I think it is good to note that the original silk screened marquee used a couple ink free spots on Trog's nose, lip and fingertip. I was worried that shine would be lost in translation to a digital print, but luckily it still looks great.
Final VerdictThis last image is the nail in the coffin of why I am a incredibly pleased with the translite. I took images of the three materials I had side by side to see how they looked backlit. I am not surprised that the translite looks better than the $10 kinkos print I had done a few years back. But I was really surprised to see how much the translite outperformed the original silk screen marquee. Notice that the silk screen blue background by Trog's eye looks almost black? Light simply doesn't emanate as well through the silk screen as much as the translite does.
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