If this is a factory assembly problem, and not a playfield problem, where on God's green earth did Bally/Williams/Gottlieb manage to find expert teams of Oompa-Loompas capable of building games that last a lifetime? Apparently, JJP needs to get rid of all of the Hornswogglers, Vermicious Knids, Snozzwangers, and Whangdoodles on their assembly line before prospective buyers are frightened off for good. "It's all there, black and white, clear as crystal! You sold me a defective game which now has to be washed and sterilized, at my expense, so I lose! Good day, sir!"

A full color silkscreen print is produced using a four color CMYK process. Basically the same end result as using an inkjet printer, but laying the colors down one at a time, from light to dark.

The four color silkscreen process uses small halftone dots as well. You don't really end up with four complete layers of color on top of each other, if you did the entire print would be black, lol, but you do have some overlap where dots mix together and form new colors, which is why you apply the colors in order from light to dark.

If you have any serigraphs or lithographs hanging on your walls, they were produced using the same process, so rest assured that screen printing photorealistic imagery is easily done.

Do we know that Mirco's playfield problems have anything to do with the printing? I'd be more inclined to believe there is something wrong with the ceramic clearcoat process.

In a recent podcast, he talked about buying a Pirates CE, but this is when The Big Lebowski also became available, so he was wrestling with the implications of buying/owning one-too-many pins.

LOL. Yup. I'm sure he relishes it. So, if someone really does dislike the guy, it would be best to not say anything at all. Nothing is worse than being ignored.