Making your own marquees

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Does anyone have experience printing your own marquees? I have some jamma games I was going to make some up for, but I'm curious how people usually go about printing them out. Do you find a place that does inkjet on translite? Or some other material? Or do you just send the files to one of the online repro places?

Didn't ops just print out paper ones and stick them in there back in the day?
 
I send the file to Scott @ GameOnGrafix. I've been happy with the 4-5 I've done so far.
 
Does anyone have experience printing your own marquees? I have some jamma games I was going to make some up for, but I'm curious how people usually go about printing them out. Do you find a place that does inkjet on translite? Or some other material? Or do you just send the files to one of the online repro places?

Didn't ops just print out paper ones and stick them in there back in the day?

I made one from photo paper (Shown) but was happier when I sent it to gameongrafx, he printed it on inkjet and I sandwiched it between 2 x sheets of plexi



It looks better now with the proper art fitted, that was an old pic with a join
 
I adhere to a piece of plexi, and I can print you what you need, if you want. Normal sized marquees cost about $15+ shipping

Here is what some of my stuff looks like, I printed the Marquee($15), CPO($25) and Bezel($30).

finishedkongs011.jpg
 
I have these things inf anyone is interested.
These are generic fighting themed make your own name marquees from 1991.
Includes marquee, sheet of letter and yellow background sticker.

You need to stick the letters on backwards since the sticky part is on the from of the sticker. After you put the letters on, you stick on the yellow background.
 

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