I've been giving some thought to a couple of my machines that have nice playfields and are good players, but have ratty backglasses... most notably by Williams Blue Chip and Midway Little League.

I am fairly proficient with Photoshop, so I can deal with digitally filling in the peeled areas without too much difficulty, but I'm not clear on where to get scanning and printing done. For obvious reasons, scanning would need to be done locally, and I have called around to every print and copy shop in town, and none have a large flatbed scanner. Are you guys scanning on 8.5 x14 scanners and stitching the file together?

Printing... well, I found an old thread with a link to a company who would print translites, but the link now says that the printed pieces must be original works, and not subject to copyright. So who do you guys use for printing? (PM me that if you don't want to post it here!).

Also, how do you deal with the backlighting when making a translite? Are you masking off and spray painting some areas? How do you deal with the areas that had multi-tonal areas on a backglass (the lighter spots that showed the ball in play for example)?

Never heard of them before-- but it looks like they may very well have the answers to my problems.