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How did Atari apply side art to Arcade Cabinets? (arcadeblogger.com)
jdswain 1 hours ago [-]
One thing that I don’t think the article mentions is how many times a screen could be used?
foodandart 30 minutes ago [-]
It really does depend on the thickness of the photo emulsion and the print ink. I've done silk screen prints where 20 prints were managed with little detail loss. The thing with the silk screens is that as a woven cloth, it's prone to slightly stretching with each pass of the ink, so the emulsion gets thin in spots rather quickly.

I would imagine that on the big industrial printers that are using a metal mesh screen and thicker emulsion, it's maybe closer to 50? Usually in a print shop doing a big run, there'll be four or five screens made for each print layer so when one gets worn, it's replaced in the printing rack. It really is an artform.

esafak 20 minutes ago [-]
Youtube is truly a treasure.
Symbiote 2 hours ago [-]
TLDR the slop: screen printing directly onto the cabinet sides.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=lpY8gBAzF9U

(Video is embedded in the article.)

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