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Spectacular printing service for Arcade art. Must see!
Justin:
After months of searching and trying diferent options, I finally found a place that will print my custom Centipede Bezel professionally.
I tried printing this thing in 3 places, and the results varied from terrible to 'just OK'. I was after a professional quality print, something equal or close to a real bezel. Well, I found it! Actually someone from the forum pointed this out to me, and it has been mentioned before on other threads.
The place is called http://www.classicarcadegrafix.com/ and the results are spectacular, I kid you not!
They specialize in arcade graphics for CP, Bezels, and Marquees among others. they will even resize to fit your custom dimensions. Note that I did not buy any of their own graphics, so I cannot say anything about the quality of their art. But I sent them my own Adobe Illustrator vector file of the Centipede Bezel I had traced (took weeks to complete the bezel BTW), and I can tell you the print quality is unbelievable. I consider myself quite the anal person, and I cannot imagine how this printout could be any better. It can't. Nope.
If you are planning on printing your stuff, I wouldn't look anywhere else. Oh, did I mention pricing for this was $35 shipped? And excellent customer service from them. Arrived in 3 days or so, and well packed (quite cleverly too) so the vinyl arrived in perfect condition.
I am posting a few pics now for you to see. First a picture taken with my digital camera: (at an angle to avoid flash reflection)
Justin:
This is a scanned version, directly fed from my scanner:
Justin:
And now a Mega-Closeup.
The important thing is to note there is virtually no print pattern, graininess, or any other artifact from the printing process itself. With other prints, I could see grains with my bare eyes. Not here!!!
Howard_Casto:
the pictures are pretty impressive, but i would hope so of a print with such a low color count and such high contrast. Some full color prints, like the tmnt sideart, would make for a better example of their abilities.
gprime:
wow that's pretty impressive quality. i wonder how much they charge for shipping to canada.