Still struggling with my inlay

[plz]

FWIW, here are my personal opinions and experience that may be helpful for your inlays. First, understand that the inlays start out as white. To get the black background that you want, black will be printed on top of the white inlay. Your white text is NOT "printed" in white ink - rather, it is "printed" by NOT printing black in those areas. Since all inks bleed slightly, very fine white lettering runs the risk of having so much black ink bleed into the white area that the letters do not appear crisp. Every printer in the world will tell you to avoid this if at all possible. That's why ASM is recommending that you make your text font a little bolder - so that any bleeding from the black ink will not obliterate the readability of your text.

While I personally like both designs #1 and #2 (and #2 a little better, actually) I don't in general like dark, bleed inlays. Aesthetically, inlays that are fundamentally black or dark don't enhance the body and edge spot color of the chips - they simply darken the overall appearance of the chip. I'm sure you've probably looked through ASM's gallery of custom chips on their website, but take another look. Almost all of the inlays have a white background. Whether or not you like these custom designs (and I'll agree that most of them are uninspired) the fundamentally white inlays help each chip's colors to stand out. And they're easier to print, as well.

If you have the time and patience, you might want to try your basic design in reverse - i.e., dark lettering, light background instead of vice versa. But ultimately, you need to go with the design that you find most appealing.

Finally, for aesthetic reasons I would simply list the city (Helsinki) and delete the "FI." Anyone who is so dumb that they don't know where Helsinki is located is welcome to sit in at my poker game any time...

[poislb]

Number one is the best, great design, love the shadow effect of the cards

[`ash]

I hate to make the chioce harder for you, but with the exception of the circle outside the text, i like them all.
They look great

[Quintz71]

I agree with dropping the circle, but then can you increase the font size in it's place?

[21player]

Thanks for the comments!

I rejected the circle. I dropped the FI and
now it says plain HELSINKI. I also adjusted
the space between the 1 and 0s in 100 and 1000.
I enlarged the font a bit.

Originally Posted by SteveA

Here are mine:
www.homepokertour.com/graphics/asm_chips_handled.jpg

Nice chips SteveA!
What is your font and the size of it?

Originally Posted by plz

FWIW, here are my personal opinions and experience that may be helpful for your inlays. First, understand that the inlays start out as white. To get the black background that you want, black will be printed on top of the white inlay. Your white text is NOT "printed" in white ink - rather, it is "printed" by NOT printing black in those areas. Since all inks bleed slightly, very fine white lettering runs the risk of having so much black ink bleed into the white area that the letters do not appear crisp. Every printer in the world will tell you to avoid this if at all possible. That's why ASM is recommending that you make your text font a little bolder - so that any bleeding from the black ink will not obliterate the readability of your text.

plz, good point!
Unfortunately I can't make white inlay because of the 'Ace-Jack' -image in the centre. It has to be there

Here is my latest inlay design.
I also tried other font types for numbers only (2 and 3).
Which one do you prefer?

http://www.saunalahti.fi/~kimmo21/index.html


-21player