All the work I am slowly doing is commercial inkjet printing. I am lucky enough to find a willing printer with a Color Span 9840uv printer. Seems like a real slow learning curve for me going on 3 years. Finally I believe the process is figured out, take your time to let the uv ink dry another 1 - 2 weeks. Allow about 20 - 24 hours between coats of Waterbourne Gloss Varethane (3 - 6 coats). If you do like 3 coats in one day, you are rolling the dice to start over. The biggest failure in the past was the body shop doing the 2 coats of finish DuPont. They would rush this at the end of the work day, & now I know that only 1 coat a day should be done for curing. If not the failure is wrinkling in small places around light lenses or black ink areas.
People constantly tell me they don't want an overlay & definitely want the finish DuPont coats. The 20 playfields left from the last 3 years are being done over this winter & early spring here in Canada. If things work out many more titles will become available & my wish is that many people could do the same around the world. Hopefully other printers can see that they could do one at a time, around the world with out wrecking a 50k ink head. That would allow anyone to restore their playfield if art file available. That's the ultimate goal!
