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- tl;dr: plain old silkscreen printing. Nothing revolutionaryby fnord77
- Youtube is truly a treasure.by esafak
- After 30+ years of decals and wraps being the way to decorate arcade and pinball cabinets, Spooky Pinball reintroduced direct-printing, known as "butter cabs"[1]. Although this time via large inkjet-type printers.
Just like the screenprinted Atari cabinets, it's worth seeing the Spooky butter cabs in-person. While decals have come a long way in fidelity and application, there's a feeling of satisfaction when the image is part of the object, rather than on the object.
by yesfitz - One thing that I don’t think the article mentions is how many times a screen could be used?by jdswain
- The article mentions the "registration" process. Those multicolored gunsight-like symbols you sometimes see on the edges of printed things are called registration marks. They help the operator quickly judge whether the plates are aligned. Slightly different from the pins and stops the article mentions; those are to align the screens, while the marks are to see whether the result is aligned.
This is all familiar to people above a certain age. Younger folks who grew up without Sunday color comics might still be able to find a slightly blurry plus sign on the bottom of a paper milk carton.
by sowbug - I saw the headline and immediately thought "silk screen"
We learned how to do it in 8th grade in shop class. The end result was a T-shirt or other item that we printed from the screens we made. We cut our screens manually with an Xacto knife, but also learned about photo emulsion screens.
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