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cuthulas:
First time poster here, but I have been lurking for a while.  

I have nearly completed an awesome 4-player cabinet, but I have run into one obstacle today.

Yesterday my wife and I spent nearly a whole day learning paintshop pro and creating my marquee and control panel.  We created a pretty awesome Superman versus Hulk layout on both.  I titled my cabinet, "Supermame".  Of course, I used the superman style lettering for it with him and the Hulk ever present throughout the design.

Well ... I brought the files on CD to Kinkos to have them print it ... everything SEEMED fine and they would have it ready in a day.  Well, I got a call this morning from the branch manager saying he could not print it since I didn't have a written release to use Superman or his likeness ... blah blah blah ... GRRRRR

Sooooo ... I'm wondering if my wife and I wasted our whole day for nothing.  How did the rest of you go about doing oversize printing?  Are most printers gonna say the same thing?  

My images are 27" X 8.5" (Marquee) and 48" by 20" (Control Panel).  Any recommendations, advice, etc. would  be GREATLY appreciated.  I'm just irked because I know if that manager had not just stumbled upon the job it woulda been done anyway and I would now have my artwork ready to put into my panel so I can continue building my cabinet.  

Thanks in advance!

Cuth

SNAAAKE:
WHAT ! ! ! ? >:( :o

Kinkos actually said that kind of stuff man..damn..that total $hit..sorry for the language but now this...I mean no kinkos ever told me that i cant print capcom/marvel/snk because i am not the owner of the certain pictures..WTF :-\.

I really cany help you but i dont think other places with tell you such thing if you wanna print something out like that.

Also,if everything else fails then you can have cyberpunk print your artwork out of his printer..he charges only $5 for the marque on regular paper(kinkos do the same for like $12).

another piece of advice,print your cp artwork on vinyl.Vinyl looks great..seen mine lately?
There ya go..
http://www.arcadecontrols.org/yabbse/index.php?board=10;action=display;threadid=5365

cuthulas:
Yeah ... the branch manager at Kink's was "laying down the law" or something.  But alls well that ends well ...

I've been emailing Chuck (Mamestation 1 and 2 creator) since I really liked his CP artwork.  He had a similar problem with Kinkos, but they let him sign some sort of release and they did the work for him.  So ... I called that branch manager back, and after speaking with him for about 5 or 10 minutes he agreed to do the work if I just signed the release even though he doesn't think the release applies in my situation.  

Hopefully I'll have my artwork done this afternoon.  

As for the Vinyl, it does look great so I may change my CP artwork onto Vinyl.  As for the marquee I was just planning on going with a laminated paper pinned between the two pieces of lexan.  

Cuth

SNAAAKE:
okay post your result..kinkos usually prints everything wrong..EVERYTIME i went to print something out..they didnt do it right..Here is prove..

This was supposed to 10x24 but hey..they got me a 112"x54".
This thing cost over $110 but he gave me for $20..HOW DUMB IS KINKOS,believe it or not..i offered the guy $30 and he says "okay $30 sounds great"..so i give him 2 twenty dollars bill and he is supposed to give me back $10 back right?He hands me a $20 and says thank you..I didnt bother telling him that because even if i only paid $20 for this print,i have no use for it..maybe around the coin door place for my new cabinet.. ;D.
Did you also know that kinkos gave me a free marque onces..lot of you know the story but lets not go there anymore. ;).
They are like ALWAYS drunk up there...(thats the only reasonable explaination ;D)

brandon:
hey SNAAAKE why dont you go for the worlds largest Marque with that thing? ;D  well.. actually you could use it as Sideart but it might look funny turned sideways.. and your cab would have to be about 10' tall... oh well, makes a nice poster for a game room...

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