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Justin:

--- Quote from: Fat-Johnny on January 15, 2004, 06:17:38 pm ---
Scroll down a few lines, and look at the closeup of the MAME marquee from the "competitor", then look at theirs.  WOW!!!  Thats sharp, saturated, and crystal clear!!


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Those images are 'examples'.  Read: for illustrational purposes only. That second image ("their image") is actually the original vector art file.  This is not a picture/scan of the printout.
How do I know?  I zommed in 500% and you can see a perfectly horizontal and vertical lines, as well as a perfect diagonal line..   (see below).  

But don't worry.  Their print quality is indeed phenomenal.

OSCAR:

--- Quote from: Justin on January 15, 2004, 11:18:33 pm ---
--- Quote from: Fat-Johnny on January 15, 2004, 06:17:38 pm ---
Scroll down a few lines, and look at the closeup of the MAME marquee from the "competitor", then look at theirs.  WOW!!!  Thats sharp, saturated, and crystal clear!!


--- End quote ---

Those images are 'examples'.  Read: for illustrational purposes only. That second image ("their image") is actually the original vector art file.  This is not a picture/scan of the printout.
How do I know?  I zommed in 500% and you can see a perfectly horizontal and vertical lines, as well as a perfect diagonal line..   (see below).  

But don't worry.  Their print quality is indeed phenomenal.

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Thanks, I'm glad you like my perfectly horizontal and vertical lines!  ;)

I actually drew those MAME logos in AutoCAD, if you can believe that.  Then I exported the .dxf file into Photoshop for the rendering.  Classicarcadegraphix.com actually prints the MAME logos I drew on their marquees, they don't print true vector files because the vector files don't exist, other than the outlines that I used in Photoshop.

Nice cabinet, BTW!  Very nicely done, and fantastic artwork!

paigeoliver:
This is funny reading this, because I think this is the same company that the restoration guys trash all day long. Now I come here and you guys give them glowing reviews.

Of course the resto guys trash them because they use large format inkjet printers rather than screenprinting the graphics.

As far as that goes. It looks fine, but you can tell the difference, easily. In the recent past I have gotten to see one of their Defender marquees, my own repro Defender marquee (printed at Kinkos), and an original. The original was the best, followed by theirs, followed by mine. All were acceptable, but the original did look best.

As far as sending them artwork to reproduce, their website says


--- Quote ---All artwork scans submitted, emailed, ftp'd, or provided for inspection or scanned images of artwork we scan become our property and may be reused as we see fit with the exception of original artwork(ie what you create) which we make no claims on. We reserve the right to reuse scans of vintage artwork as we see fit.
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I am considering using them when the time comes to create the missing artwork for my City Connection!

KevSteele:

--- Quote from: paigeoliver on January 16, 2004, 07:40:34 am ---This is funny reading this, because I think this is the same company that the restoration guys trash all day long. Now I come here and you guys give them glowing reviews.

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I'm not sure, but I think you're thinking of "Arcade Grafix" - that's the company that all the restoration guys are ragging on (and with good reason, it appears!)

Very similar names, but they don't seem to be affiliated with each other, as far as I can tell.

Kevin

(mod: added name of other company)

Stingray:
From their faq:

All of our artwork is made using a proprietary high quality pigmentation process not cheap inkjet dyes. The innovative process we use delivers long-lasting, lightfast prints with an expected indoor life of fade resistance of over 100 years.

I took this to mean that they do not use large format inkjets.

-S

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