How did Atari apply side art to Arcade Cabinets?

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42 points by msephton3 hours ago

3 comments

jdswain1 hour ago
One thing that I don’t think the article mentions is how many times a screen could be used?
- foodandart1 hour 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.
esafak1 hour ago
Youtube is truly a treasure.
Symbiote3 hours ago
TLDR the slop: screen printing directly onto the cabinet sides.<a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=lpY8gBAzF9U" rel="nofollow">https://youtube.com/watch?v=lpY8gBAzF9U</a>(Video is embedded in the article.)
- msephton6 minutes ago
 Yes, screen printing, but there's more to it than those two words!And the video in the post was sourced and uploaded by...the blog post author.Also, let's be serious, that blog has been writing about arcade related things for over a decade <a href="https://arcadeblogger.com/2013/04/01/1814065/" rel="nofollow">https://arcadeblogger.com/2013/04/01/1814065/</a> and running a podcast since 2020, and the author wrote a book in 2020.One could say he puts real effort into all this, you know?