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Title: what type of laminating material for CPOs?
Post by: kcorcoran on June 29, 2005, 09:45:38 am

doing a couple of custom control panel overlays and wondering what material i should ask the printer to laminate the artwork with.

i want to have a texture as close to an actual CPO as possible. slightly rough.. not shiny.

i did a quick search and came up with a post where a guy laminates his CPO but he never got back to me about the the name of the material he used.

thx.
keith.

Title: Re: what type of laminating material for CPOs?
Post by: patrickl on June 29, 2005, 12:19:36 pm

I laminated mine with the stuff you can put on books. I'd say it holds up pretty well.

Title: Re: what type of laminating material for CPOs?
Post by: SNAAKE on June 29, 2005, 01:55:51 pm

you should have www.mamemarquee.com print your CPO.Their material is almost like the real arcade overlays.

Title: Re: what type of laminating material for CPOs?
Post by: skybluestav on June 29, 2005, 08:05:34 pm

Quote from: SNAAKE on June 29, 2005, 01:55:51 pm

you should have www.mamemarquee.com print your CPO.Their material is almost like the real arcade overlays.

i second that! Scott rules! ;)

Title: Re: what type of laminating material for CPOs?
Post by: kcorcoran on June 29, 2005, 09:23:35 pm

i've seen his printing.. looks good.. but i use a specific printer for all my art and i get a really good price/sq foot. if i find that they cant match or beat the $39 for a laminated CPO then i'll got with scott. i just like to get all my stuff from 1 place.. 1 shipping charge whenever possible.

thanks for the suggestion.

k.

Title: Re: what type of laminating material for CPOs?
Post by: patrickl on June 30, 2005, 03:02:42 am

BTW, here are two pictures of the CPO I laminated:
(http://arcade.laweb.nl/CP_CloseUp.jpg)

(http://arcade.laweb.nl/CP_Full.jpg)

It's a test CP I made to see if some ideas worked (some did some didn't). I plan to get my final CPO printed by MameMarquees or ClassicArcadeGrafix.

CAG also sells some laminate (http://www.classicarcadegrafix.com/sunshop/index.php/action/category/id/15/). The textured version is about as expensive as a printed CPO  ::)