Printing your own arcade cabinet art ~ tutorial

[spystyle]

Hello fellow arcade cabinet builders !

I have written a tutorial on how to print your own, self-adhesive cabinet art

I'm not sure if this method has been covered before or not but I find it very usefull myself as print shops are so expensive !

Dig it?
Craig

[CthulhuLuke]

If you don't mind the slop inbetween paper and the quality of a home printer then that method works great.  When I get my overlay printed however I'm going to have to take it to kinkos becaues I want the entire sheet smooth and photo quality.  If you had a nice printer and an ink cartridge to dispense, using photoquality paper and rubber cement wouldn't be the worst way to go, I made a few art projects using photo paper, looks incredibly sharp and everything.  There's just always those spaces between the paper that your eye will pick out no matter how carefully you match them up.

    -Cool psp tutorial

[Ad_Enuff]

I dont wish to sound negative, but I agree whole heatedly with CthulhuLuke.

If your going to spend so much time creating a beautiful cab it would really spoil it by using photopaper and an inkjet printer.

I have an EPSON Stylus PHOTO 2100 A3 printer here and it produces awesoem prints.

But thats all its really good for. For me photo quality images professionally made on sticky vinyl is THE way to go.

[patrickl]

I made a control panel overlay on my Epson photo printer using A3 roll paper (13" wide), covered it with clear laminate and (if I say so myself) it looks really good. I think I could get away with actually using that. I wouldn't dream of patching prints together though.

For my real cab I'm gonna order prints (especially for the marquee and bezel) Not sure if it's gonna be classicarcadegrafix or mamemarquees (I guess I'll try both)

[GameDork]

This should work perfect for the monitor bezel underlay for my pacman until I can afford the $100 glass from twobits!!