Scanning a playfield

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A friend of mine gave me an old desktop scanner. The lid can be removed and the scanner does work upside down (I've read that some do not). I thought to myself, this will be helpful with my Apollo restoration that I'm working on. So I take it out to the shop and give it a try. I get a good scan of an area and bring the resultant file into my PC in the house. I then redraw several keylines and duplicate the font (thinking to transfer to decal paper), on a new image layer, using the jpg as a background. I print out my new file on regular paper to ensure all is lined up and.... it doesn't line up.
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Not sure if it is due to the crappy scanner or the knucklehead driving the scanner.

If anyone here has used a scanner on a playfield, would you be kind enough to share some tips / tricks? My goal is to use decal paper on some things if possible, otherwise I'm facing a lot of painting by hand.

Thanks
 
A friend of mine gave me an old desktop scanner. The lid can be removed and the scanner does work upside down (I've read that some do not). I thought to myself, this will be helpful with my Apollo restoration that I'm working on. So I take it out to the shop and give it a try. I get a good scan of an area and bring the resultant file into my PC in the house. I then redraw several keylines and duplicate the font (thinking to transfer to decal paper), on a new image layer, using the jpg as a background. I print out my new file on regular paper to ensure all is lined up and.... it doesn't line up.
bash.gif
Not sure if it is due to the crappy scanner or the knucklehead driving the scanner.

If anyone here has used a scanner on a playfield, would you be kind enough to share some tips / tricks? My goal is to use decal paper on some things if possible, otherwise I'm facing a lot of painting by hand.

Thanks

Same thing happens to me on the scanner, there are errors near the edges

I had to stretch the smaller page to get it to line up

:)
 
A friend of mine gave me an old desktop scanner. The lid can be removed and the scanner does work upside down (I've read that some do not). I thought to myself, this will be helpful with my Apollo restoration that I'm working on. So I take it out to the shop and give it a try. I get a good scan of an area and bring the resultant file into my PC in the house. I then redraw several keylines and duplicate the font (thinking to transfer to decal paper), on a new image layer, using the jpg as a background. I print out my new file on regular paper to ensure all is lined up and.... it doesn't line up.
bash.gif
Not sure if it is due to the crappy scanner or the knucklehead driving the scanner.

If anyone here has used a scanner on a playfield, would you be kind enough to share some tips / tricks? My goal is to use decal paper on some things if possible, otherwise I'm facing a lot of painting by hand.

Thanks

While this mostly pertains to not having a scanner, it still should hold true regardless of what the original file was...

Give this a read, it is worth your time- http://tools.reelpinball.com/instructions.php
 
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