Debaser and I worked on a Black Knight project together. By worked together I mean he did 98% of the work

The backglass was toast, however so I set out to have one printed locally. This is by no means a collector quality machine so there was no way we were going to spend $350-400 on a new glass.

I found some artwork online, manipulated it in Illustrator, scraped the old art off the original glass and had them print directly to it. The results are below. I'm posting this because I'm so impressed with print quality nowadays. It's direct to glass and is three layers, art+white+art. The real treat is the price of $60 all in. You'll notice no masking layer though. That can be done but would add another $30 or so. But what the hell, it looks pretty damn good in the machine!!

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Thanks for the question. Those are frosted LED but I should clarify that the light showing through is much softer and more diffuse in person. The camera for some reason makes it look the way you're seeing it.

Yes a masking layer would take care of a lot of that anyway but this was an experiment. Even the print shop wasn't sure how the ink would adhere when piling six layers on so I opted to print just the art to see how it would turn out.

There's no mirroring but the art looks "silversish" for lack of a better term.

If you're asking what I did with the mirroring on the original artwork I got it off there. I didn't want to risk the ink adhering to the glass but not the old mirroring.

1. More details? Can you be more specific in what you're asking for?
2. The sign company I used prints a white layer in between two colored layers to give the image some depth
3. I scraped everything off the glass and removed the mirroring as well
4. A pic of the backside of the glass post printing was included in the OP.

The pictures at the top of the page, the one numbered 0853 is the backside of the glass post printing.

The name of the company is Fast Signs. You have one in Marietta

No prob. If you use them be sure to drop in and show us the final product. The next glass I do will be the full experiment of art and masking layer. I don't see how it wouldn't work...

The artwork was nothing more than a photo I found online so the resolution is good but not great. A nice 300dpi illustrated piece would look amazing should I ever find time to recreate all that art. The most difficult part was measuring and sizing the placement of the windows. Thankfully I had the glass in front of me as a guide. If the print is a cm off on any of those windows you can imagine that the final product would look like amateur hour

Thanks for the compliment. This was an exercise in "What's the best I can get for under $75?" Mission accomplished!

PS: Here is what I gave the printer. Pretty simple stuff

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$60 to set up? Did they give you an explanation?

I'm going to do a Firepower next. Will experiment with a masking layer. I'm thinking art+white+masking layer. The mirroring is hard to give up but for players condition machines something has to give...

Yes I scraped off the original artwork as it was garbage. The medium however (the glass) was in VGC when cleared so why not reuse it? New glass would work, so would plexi. They had acetate sheets to create a translite as well but since I had the glass why not recycle?

True that. The possibilities are endless but you'll surely go over the $60 threshold

Keep in mind that this was only a 6mb file. I would call it medium resolution. It looks good but not great.

Finally, what I did was a restoration of original artwork which is why the sign company was able to print what is otherwise copyrighted material. They might turn away the idea of printing to a new medium.