You may not realize it at first glance, but the differences are numerous. Dark stripes, light stripes, no stripes, silver Genesis logos, white Genesis logos, and covers that don't conform to the red-framing at all. If you are OCD or just trying to get a nice, uniform library going this can be a total nightmare, and it makes you wonder what Sega was thinking. Nintendo always got docked for being very controlling of many aspects of their operations, but the quality shows with things like this. I ultimately had to Photoshop half of the covers in the picture, and I'm still missing two (who even got a retail box for Sega Menacer 6?!), but progress is progress, regardless.
I am just now getting into putting my collection into UGC and am having a hard time getting info on what steps to take to get these printed at kinkos. Any suggestions or tutorial links?
ReplyDeleteWhat I'd do is first go to thecoverproject.net and find all of the covers you need. If you can't find them on the main site check out the forums. Once you download all of the covers you will need to put them on a flash drive and take them to Kinkos. When you walk in tell them you want your images printed at full resolution, on 11x17 32 pound paper, no gloss (since the ink provides a nice sheen), and that you want all crop marks printed as well. This will give you a nice quality print, dead center, on some nice, solid paper (but not too solid since the sharp bends of the UGC may crack the ink). The crop marks provide a good reference for where the corners of the image are for when you cut them. I believe that each print is about $1.80. Once you get your prints done you walk over to the cutting station and start cutting. Take off the large chunks of plain white paper first, then go closer to the edges of your image. Cutting the longer sides first will make your life easier. Sometimes the UGCs are manufactured a little undersized, meaning that your perfectly cut print won't fit perfectly in the case without a bit of wrinkling. What I do is take a sample UGC with me to the store and test it out. If it gets wrinkled you can cut about 1mm off of the right edge and it will fit perfectly with no wrinkles. Sometimes you get a bit of hassle from the employees about printing "copyrighted" material, but you can usually find a flexible one that won't give you any trouble. Hope this helps and sorry for the one long paragraph. Good luck! :)
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