Marquee printing

[steve_pss]

Well I called one Kinkos and was told they don't do backlit printing, then called another and was told she didn't know what button to hit on the register to get me a price..

Soooo

I opened up Superpages and found, right in my hometown a very friendly knowledgeable guy that prints on 7 mil backlit material.. and he's pretty cheap, 20 bucks for a one off marquee.


I'll let you know how it turns out, but I think I may have an alternative besides the chain stores for those folks in the Southern New England area. I'll let you know.

[Carsten Carlos]

I never have been in the USA so far - but from what I've read here I know the people at Kinko's are not the brightest anyway!
20 bucks is a fair price - go for it!

[SirPeale]

There's a guy in my hometown that will do backlit stuff, but there's like a $50 set up charge, plus $$$ for each one printed.  I don't exactly know what the 'set up' entails, other than putting material in the machine, but I guess he's got to make a profit.

...it just won't be from me.

[rampy]

Well I called one Kinkos and was told they don't do backlit printing, then called another and was told she didn't know what button to hit on the register to get me a price..

Soooo

I opened up Superpages and found, right in my hometown a very friendly knowledgeable guy that prints on 7 mil backlit material.. and he's pretty cheap, 20 bucks for a one off marquee.


I'll let you know how it turns out, but I think I may have an alternative besides the chain stores for those folks in the Southern New England area. I'll let you know.

uh... where's your hometown.. and what's the business name?

It pays to shop around... it's just hard to know the right terminology sometimes and where to look.

Rampy in CT

[KevSteele]

If you're interested in backlight (read: mylar) printing, MAMEngineer (Tom Beckendorf) offers a marquee service for $25, shipped to your door.

http://www.geocities.com/ncenginear/

I wasn't completely happy with the results of my marquee from him, but I was completely happy with the bezel artwork I got from him. My review of his services:

http://users.adelphia.net/~kevsteele/mame/marquee.html

Kevin

[steve_pss]

North Providence, RI

[cleric]

I gone have my marquee print it and the Control Panel artwork
for 40 Euros in a photoshop. It looks fine ...i think ...

[Mike]

The setup cost for printing you will get at any reputable printing company. They aren't trying to rip you off. I worked at a large format printing company for 2 years. They have to do stuff like color correction and sizing and all sorts of other stuff(I didn't do prepress I was a software developer). It doesn't sound important until they print your RGB image on thier CMYK printer and your orange is now green. Some places will waive the setup charge but will not guarantee thier work then. Basically if your too cheap to pay for the setup on your image make sure you research what they will be printing it on so you can set the image up correctly. What looks good on the screen often doesn't on vinyl.