[Lucky Louie]

Hi Everyone,

I've been a chipaholic wannabe for a while, lurking and gathering information from all you nice people. It is time to take the plunge into a set of horse heads. My question is regarding the centration of the inlays. One of my ideas involves a circle along the circumference. Bob, the graphics artist at Pokerchips . com advised caution stating that there will probably be some inlays punched off center which is more obvious with a circle.

Anyone here have experience with that? Any percentage of noticeable off center inlays?

Thanks

[jojobinks]

Originally Posted by Lucky Louie

Hi Everyone,

I've been a chipaholic wannabe for a while, lurking and gathering information from all you nice people. It is time to take the plunge into a set of horse heads. My question is regarding the centration of the inlays. One of my ideas involves a circle along the circumference. Bob, the graphics artist at Pokerchips . com advised caution stating that there will probably be some inlays punched off center which is more obvious with a circle.

Anyone here have experience with that? Any percentage of noticeable off center inlays?

Thanks

centration?
but seriously, the pharaoh's have a noticeable percentage of off-center inlays. i'd say like 1/5 or so. if this is a necessary evil, then yeah, it seems like a bad idea to have an outline at the very outer edge of the inlay.

i don't have ASM's though.

calling veitrounder, spacemonkey, and other ASM buyers! come out come out wherever you are!

[PocketRocket]

The artists at ASM deal with this every day. I'd recommend relying upon their advice. Die-cutting a circle perfectly centered for an inlay is an invitation to trouble. Be aware that they're referring to a process that entails the inlay stock being printed first and then the circular form being cut from the printed stock afterwards. You should be aware that there will be a potential that some or even many of the inlays may be off-center enough that they will be detectable to the naked eye. As an experiment for your self, you might want to create a template for yourself (or use the .PDF file from onlinelabels) of circles on a sheet of paper, and then try and print perfectly aligned images into each of the circles, that should give you an idea of what you might be facing.

Originally Posted by Lucky Louie

Hi Everyone,

I've been a chipaholic wannabe for a while, lurking and gathering information from all you nice people. It is time to take the plunge into a set of horse heads. My question is regarding the centration of the inlays. One of my ideas involves a circle along the circumference. Bob, the graphics artist at Pokerchips . com advised caution stating that there will probably be some inlays punched off center which is more obvious with a circle.

Anyone here have experience with that? Any percentage of noticeable off center inlays?

Thanks

[GabeManis]

Do you think they would have a problem designing (or me designing and them printing) a chip with an inlay that has the illusion of being shaped? I am talking about an inlay similar to the BC Turf Club inlay.

[littlebu]

Originally Posted by PocketRocket

As an experiment for your self, you might want to create a template for yourself (or use the .PDF file from onlinelabels) of circles on a sheet of paper, and then try and print perfectly aligned images into each of the circles, that should give you an idea of what you might be facing.

The label's I printed had a circular edge to them. Trying to get them perfect was by far one of the most irritating things I have ever done. The next set will definately not have a circular pattern

[X-Files]

Originally Posted by GabeManis

Do you think they would have a problem designing (or me designing and them printing) a chip with an inlay that has the illusion of being shaped? I am talking about an inlay similar to the BC Turf Club inlay.

You may have to use BC for this kind of label. If I remember right ASM will not print to the edge of the label so you would have some whitespace.

[PocketRocket]

If you want something along those lines, you might want to start with a background color that will be the color of the circle and then drop a 7/8" circular design in the center of it (for a 1" label). The background should be large enough to allow for about a 10% bleed (i.e. 330x330 pixels if you're printing at 300 DPI). Regardless, some labels will still be off center a little, but it will most likely be more tolerable. Quite honestly, anyone that has expectations that each inlay will turn out perfectly centered is probably setting themselves up for disappointment. If a person's expectations are on that level, they would probably be better served with a more current technology, like that from Chipco or one of the other vendors that print directly to the chip, or go to the added expense of having labels printed by a company that prints labels on a press (usually around 30-40¢ each for weatherproof labels).

In your case, rather than going for that frustrating circular pattern, you might want to get a little extra mileage from the label by using a bleed to make full use of the label surface.

Originally Posted by littlebu

The label's I printed had a circular edge to them. Trying to get them perfect was by far one of the most irritating things I have ever done. The next set will definately not have a circular pattern