How did Atari apply side art to Arcade Cabinets?

jdswain

One thing that I don’t think the article mentions is how many times a screen could be used?

esafak

Youtube is truly a treasure.

SoftTalker

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.

fnord77

tl;dr: plain old silkscreen printing. Nothing revolutionary

sowbug

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.