Super Punch-Out sideart .AI file

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I'm back in Maine and have access to my PC again, so I've attached the file here as a split .ZIP file (I had to split it because it exceeded the attachment size limit). The attachment manager for this forum requires a valid file extension, so I had to add ".zip" to the split files. In order to extract this file, remove the ".zip" extension from the files that have the ".z01", ".z02", ".z03", etc. The attachment manager only allows 5 attachments, and since there are 9 parts, I'll include the remaining 4 parts in a second post.

A few things to keep in mind for anyone who may print from this file:

• The colors are just approximations. For the screen printed run that we did a while back, the printer color-matched from my NOS decal (he was local). I'm not willing to mail this decal to anyone for color matching, because it is essentially irreplaceable if something happened to it.

• The original decal uses metallic silver ink (like the metallic silver ink on Punch-Out CPOs and Super Punch-Out "Ducking Pull" stickers) in the parts that I colored grey. This can only be done with screen printing. Inkjets can not do this.

• The gradients in the original decal are halftone (a series of progressively smaller black dots which create the illusion of a gradient). In my .AI file, they are smooth gradients because the half-tone process is done by the printer when making the films (the smooth gradients of the source are converted to halftone). This is another thing that an inkjet can not do (it will simply print out the same smooth gradients as you see in the .AI file).

• The original decal was impressive, in that it used a very fine dot pitch for the halftones, thus creating the illusion of a smoother gradient. The screen printer that I used could not quite match this, but he came close. He said that in order to make such small dots, a very tight screen had to be used, and for that, it required a special type of ink (because the normal ink would clog/dry before getting onto the vinyl properly), and that special type of ink does not dry on its own so it requires special dryers which are large and expensive, and beyond the scope of his small-scale shop. He printed the halftone at 85 LPI, and estimated the original to have been printed at over 100 LPI.
 

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The remaining parts of the .ZIP are attached here:
 

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thank you, so who is gonna print some of this "super" sideart up again?
I'm in for 2 sets..
 
You are the man, Max. Thank you very, very much.

BTW - Can Rich get this done (since it cant be inkjet)?
 
You are the man, Max. Thank you very, very much.

BTW - Can Rich get this done (since it cant be inkjet)?
It can be inkjet; it just wouldn't look very authentic for this particular piece of art, due to its metallic silver ink and halftone gradients.
 
I cant get it to open up...how do you open...it keeps on telling me that ithe file is corrupt or there is no file in zipped folder


thanks,
need help
 
I cant get it to open up...how do you open...it keeps on telling me that ithe file is corrupt or there is no file in zipped folder


thanks,
need help

First, you have to download all 9 attachments (it is a split zip). Then, you have to rename 8 of those attachments to remove the ".zip" part of the filename (no need to rename the first attachment). At this point you should have 9 files, named like so:

spo.zip
spo.z01
spo.z02
spo.z03
spo.z04
spo.z05
spo.z06
spo.z07
spo.z08

Make sure all the files are in the same folder, and then extract the first file (spo.zip) and it will extract the whole thing; which will give you the .AI file. If you still have issues after doing that, try extracting it with WinZip (that's the program I used to create it with).
 
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Ill take a look at this and see what I do
But cant get the files to extract
have tried winzip and winrar
:(
I just downloaded all of the attachments to test them, and they extracted fine for me with WinZip (I do have a really old version though [8.1 SR-1], not sure if that matters).

WinRAR was not able to extract them.

One thing I noticed; when I downloaded the attachments, it was adding a "1" in brackets to the filename, so it looked like:

spo[1].z01.zip

That "1" and the brackets need to be removed (don't know why it added that in the first place). The file names have to exactly match the following:

spo.zip
spo.z01
spo.z02
spo.z03
spo.z04
spo.z05
spo.z06
spo.z07
spo.z08
 
I think I was able to do it, it came out as a 1.5 MByte file, is that correct?

Luke
1.55 MB, named spo.ai. Can you open the .AI file? If you don't have Adobe Illustrator, it will open in Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader.

BTW, if all else fails, you can get the same version of WinZip that I have at OldVersion.com - http://www.oldversion.com/download/winzip81sr1.exe
 
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I got it to open used WinRAR to extract it, just followed your directions re-naming the files and worked fine.

Thanks for doing this, plan on getting some if more gets made.

Dennis
 
To whom it may concern,
Please put me down for a set and if you need more orders I'll take 2 sets.

Thank you,
Signed: Mr been waiting a year for this.
 
ill run a test print when i get back from cax

yesssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss!

BTW: Lets all make sure Max gets funded for him sharing this file. He did all the work, and deserves some loot for it.
 
You can put me down for 2 sets. Just PM me and let me know the damage and will be glad to pay right away. Thanks again for those involved to make this happen.
 
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