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Title: Marquee Paper
Post by: Mr. Sask on June 12, 2005, 02:15:20 pm
Hi there!

A lot of you make your own marquees using various vector-drawn pictures sandwiched between 2 pieces of plexiglass.  I was just wondering what kind of paper you print the marquee images on so that it looks decent when a backlight is on?  It can't be regular paper because any image on it looks terrible when backlit.

What do you guys use?

Later...
Title: Re: Marquee Paper
Post by: Veinman on June 12, 2005, 04:35:40 pm
Most people send them off to get printed at places like mamemarquees.com. I think the material ends up being similar to a film, like a transparency, but I have never actually printed one.

I think Kinko's has a type of vellum, or some other kind of film for printing.

For the money, it is NOT worth trying to do this yourself. Send it to mamemarquees.