Anyone here a professional printer?

[motorollin]

My MAME/UAE cabinet has been almost finished for years now, and I haven't got round to completing it. All I need to do is print the overlay for the control panel and paint the cabinet.

I have designed the control panel overlay and need to get it printed. No printing company I have contacted will do this as a one-off. It's 57cm x 18cm, full colour. It needs to be printed either on that thin plastic-like material which is often used for durable business cards, or on good quality paper and then laminated. The key is that it needs to be durable to withstand being used as a wrist-rest, and also thin as I am running out of thread on the shafts of the buttons - so the overlay needs to be no thicker than a few sheets of paper so it doesn't add to the thickness of the panel.

If someone has the equipment to do this and would be good enough to do it as a one-off, I would of course pay for the materials, and your time and expertise.

TIA

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moto

[motorollin]

The problem is that I don't know anybody with a printer which will print on paper that size - otherwise I would do just that.

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moto

[motorollin]

Hmm well the image is true colour and has a lot of gradients, so I'm not sure how well that would work. What kind of resolution could a device like that produce?

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moto

[motorollin]

@AJS
Thanks for the link! I'll definitely check it out. As for printing in two pieces, I considered it but I don't want a seam in the middle.

Once at work I tried setting up MS Publisher with a page the width of A4 and double the height of A4, then joined two pieces of A4 together lengthways to make a long piece of paper. I hoped the software would tell the printer to expect a long piece of paper, but when I printed the design the printer jammed after the first page. I suppose it depends on the printer.

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moto

[motorollin]

Hi Adz

If your work allowed you to use it, would you mind doing this for me? Would they charge you? I would of course pay for your time and whatever it costs to send the print to me.

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moto

[motorollin]

PM sent. Thanks Adz :-D

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moto

[motorollin]

Of course you realise that once you go over 2222, you won't feel happy with your post count until you many another 1111 postings to get it to 3333 ;-)

Personally, I'm aiming for 68060 posts. Might take a while...

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moto

[motorollin]

:-P

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moto

[motorollin]

Speelgoedmannetje wrote:

motorollin wrote:
Personally, I'm aiming for 68060 posts. Might take a while...

Not with your post rate :-o
'cause that's even worse than mine when it reached it's top

I've slowed down a lot recently :-)

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moto

[motorollin]

Actually I did think 6502 would be a more attainable goal :-)

8086? Pah! You're in Commie Town now!

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moto