[palmimports]

Originally Posted by OnTheButton

OK folks, this is it.

The tweaking is over, the colors are awesome and I'm giving this set the "green light" to get into production with Joe from Palm Imports and SunFly in China.

Here is the best color representation of the chips that I can offer you.

It is shot without a flash under neutral lighting (a print viewing box) and on a tripod and a delayed shutter to avoid any shaking.

These chips are finished. They look great, the graphics are crisp and the colors are smooth.

I was not given any textured chips in this round, but my personal suggestion is that these chips should be manufactured with the smooth finish as seen here.

If you need more details about these chips in general, please read my other posts reviews to get more information.




Here is a picture (neutral light again) of them in stacks.



Thank you all for your input, suggestions and reference photos to get these done and to the quality and accuracy I think we did a very good job with.

Now, gentlemen, start your engines!

Awesome Brett- cant thank you enough for all the work youve done.
I spoke with Sun last night and for THIS GB only they will do matching edge stripes- they rather would do this now then later so I have to comply.

I am SURE someone will pop up with yet another request but this is it LOL-
they now have the choice for: smooth OR textured in NON lined up edge stripes OR lined up edge stripes.
Lets see Chipco do THIS LOL

The new CT section should be on our website next week- this will be a special area ONLY accessable to CT members and it will have pricing ONLY available for CT members.

" badges.. what badges.. I aint got no badge- I aint got to show you no stinkin badge"

[Pimpdawg54]

That's really good news Joe. Everybody should be happy now. Chips look great and now the orders should take off.

[Mok]

Originally Posted by palmimports

I spoke with Sun last night and for THIS GB only they will do matching edge stripes- they rather would do this now then later so I have to comply.

Joe, again. Since I'll be the first to say it in this thread. Wow, again you have gone above and beyond to try and please everyone.

You are really adding to your logistics, aren't you? But, if you think you can handle it, more power to you, good Karma heading your way from me.

[teph]

Geez, now I am really in a bind. How could you possibly buy these WITHOUT lined up edge spots.

Also how could life possibly go on without at least 5000?

I simply do not know

[OnTheButton]

Originally Posted by palmimports

Awesome Brett- cant thank you enough for all the work youve done.
I spoke with Sun last night and for THIS GB only they will do matching edge stripes- they rather would do this now then later so I have to comply.

I am SURE someone will pop up with yet another request but this is it LOL-
they now have the choice for: smooth OR textured in NON lined up edge stripes OR lined up edge stripes.
Lets see Chipco do THIS LOL

The new CT section should be on our website next week- this will be a special area ONLY accessable to CT members and it will have pricing ONLY available for CT members.

" badges.. what badges.. I aint got no badge- I aint got to show you no stinkin badge"

Joe,

If this is the case the edge strip files for the "diamond" spotted chips are going to need to be tweaked a little bit to make sure they line up as best as they can to the body stripes.

They are slightly off right now, since this was never a part of the original design to be "super accurate" to ensure they lined up perfectly.

Should I do this to the original files? (Have to break out the old geometery book) or can SunFly handle this part?

[teph]

Originally Posted by rakdesign

I DOUBLE DAWG DARE YOU
to spend the rent money on the bellagio GB...

I am sure a CT'er in your area will put you up for a month...

How does one back down from a double dawg dare?!

If this "CT member put you up for a month" theory were true, I would HAVE to do it. I mean, at the very least we could now hold T10,000,000 Heads up tournaments to see who pays rent that month

[HENDU3270]

Wow Joe! You do deliver! Good job. I'm not concerned with the edge stripes lining up and never have been, so my 1200 chips order stands as is.....um.....unless you can change the "B" to a "T" and maybe change the "TOURNAMENT" TO "HENDU'S". How much would those chips run?........j/k great job pulling everyone together to make this "one" group buy again.

[duma]

Originally Posted by OnTheButton

Joe,

If this is the case the edge strip files for the "diamond" spotted chips are going to need to be tweaked a little bit to make sure they line up as best as they can to the body stripes.

They are slightly off right now, since this was never a part of the original design to be "super accurate" to ensure they lined up perfectly.

Should I do this to the original files? (Have to break out the old geometery book) or can SunFly handle this part?

OTB, the 500 looks great now. i still am unsure about the 25 but i dont really care about that chip anymore its the best we can do i guess.

anyways, is there pics of the 25 and 100 lining up? i am curious to see what this looks like and if there needs to be adjustments for this to work, like on the other chips. thx.

[OnTheButton]

Originally Posted by duma

OTB, the 500 looks great now. i still am unsure about the 25 but i dont really care about that chip anymore its the best we can do i guess.

anyways, is there pics of the 25 and 100 lining up? i am curious to see what this looks like and if there needs to be adjustments for this to work, like on the other chips. thx.

The tan for the 25 had to be compromised a bit.

The first run was a "pinkish tan" the second run was a flat gray.

It has more tan qualities than the picture above shows. (In the picture it looks very similar to the "5" chips gray, but it is much warmer in real life.)

The final run is right in the middle. Not a true "khaki" color, but not a pure gray either. I think it's just a printer limitation, you can't print any color on any printer. And "commerical" level printers are usually the worst at color matching anything, since they have special inks and bonding processes that require them to step out from the normal CMYK color controls.

[Wedge Rock]

Originally Posted by palmimports

I spoke with Sun last night and for THIS GB only they will do matching edge stripes- they rather would do this now then later so I have to comply.

I don't want to be the pessimist, but this is what I think it means for me:

• The waste ratio is 2:1 when trying to line up edge stripes.
• Prior to lining up edge stripes, I had a 33% chance of getting lined up edge stripes.
• Now (I assume), the non-lined up orders will be filled with rejects from the lined-up production.
• Now I have a 0% chance of getting lined up edge spots.