Sea7 Posted April 10, 2016 Share Posted April 10, 2016 (edited) Thanks lawdawg! Yes it's perfect but it's 72 dpi jpeg.. it's not the best for printing Edited April 10, 2016 by Sea7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kamshaft Posted April 10, 2016 Share Posted April 10, 2016 Thanks lawdawg! Yes it's perfect but it's 72 dpi jpeg.. it's not the best for printing The resolution for best results, you'll need an image with minimum of ~850 pixels wide by ~1100 pixels high. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sea7 Posted April 10, 2016 Share Posted April 10, 2016 The resolution for best results, you'll need an image with minimum of ~850 pixels wide by ~1100 pixels high. Oh well... the file linked in the post above is 839x1061 300dpi as I've setup the project to 7,1 x 8,98 cm (2,797 x 3,537 inches)... maybe my starting measures are wrong... Have you got the real dimensions ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kamshaft Posted April 10, 2016 Share Posted April 10, 2016 (edited) Oh well... the file linked in the post above is 839x1061 300dpi as I've setup the project to 7,1 x 8,98 cm (2,797 x 3,537 inches)... maybe my starting measures are wrong... Have you got the real dimensions ? Your measurements are right. It's 300dpi that's messing you up. 300dpi is the output resolution (aka printer) DPI = Dots per inch, PPI = pixels per inch. 2.7 inches width should be @ 300 ppi = 810 pixels. 2.7 times 300) 3.5 inches height should be @ 300 ppi = 1050 pixels Edited April 10, 2016 by Kamshaft Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sea7 Posted April 11, 2016 Share Posted April 11, 2016 (edited) Well, the print store asked me 35USD to print it... Maybe I should buy a new colevision's turbo cart..it would be cheaper Edited April 11, 2016 by Sea7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phattyboombatty Posted April 11, 2016 Share Posted April 11, 2016 I'm sure someone can print you one and mail it to you. I would, except that I'm moving this week and won't have time for a while. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kamshaft Posted April 11, 2016 Share Posted April 11, 2016 (edited) Well, the print store asked me 35USD to print it... Maybe I should buy a new colevision's turbo cart..it would be cheaper Ya, buying a Turbo cart would definitely be cheaper! I'll sell you a Turbo cart with an awesome label for.....(wait for it).... $34.99 USD! Edited April 11, 2016 by Kamshaft Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sea7 Posted April 11, 2016 Share Posted April 11, 2016 Ya, buying a Turbo cart would definitely be cheaper! I'll sell you a Turbo cart with an awesome label for.....(wait for it).... $34.99 USD! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+pboland Posted April 11, 2016 Author Share Posted April 11, 2016 Well, the print store asked me 35USD to print it... Maybe I should buy a new colevision's turbo cart..it would be cheaper If you need a label printed up, I can help. I have a pretty extensive library of Cart labels which I've cleanup/redraw. I do have a $20.00 minimum order (not including shipping), but you can just order more labels to fill the minimum. If you are interested please PM me and I can give you my full list of available labels. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
softensive Posted June 5, 2016 Share Posted June 5, 2016 Hot off the press, trying a easy to replace game prior to doing all of them. going to clean the cart inside and out tonight and get the new label installed within the next few days! Was printed on a Mikmaki CJV30-130 Printer. Is a Mimaki CG-60 SR III capable of printing and cutting high quality label as well? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SHaMROCK 73 Posted November 26, 2016 Share Posted November 26, 2016 Gold background Q*Bert please. I would also like to see all the Parker Brothers labels done with a black background to look more like Colecovision carts... Any requests? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Harris Posted March 4, 2019 Share Posted March 4, 2019 Late to the game but is there just a zip archive of all of these images so I can redo all my games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tornadoboy Posted November 8, 2019 Share Posted November 8, 2019 Is there a label for a Smartbasic cartridge anywhere? And if people are looking for suggestions for other labels: - Frantic - Road Fighter - Circus Charlie - Diamond Dash Fantasy ones: - Bouncer (based on the lost arcade game) - Teeter Torture - Exidy Fire One - Stern's Rescue - Smurf Super Game Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NIAD Posted November 8, 2019 Share Posted November 8, 2019 You'll have to contact John Lundy on the Coleco Adam Facebook page. He made one by scanning the Coleco insert card from the Data Pack case. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atariboy2600 Posted February 14, 2020 Share Posted February 14, 2020 Hey gang is there any Coleco Label for Atari 2600? As well as for Intellivision? By now our old Coleco labels tend to scratch up to hell and hate using black markers to fit them edges. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mi1ez Posted June 15, 2021 Share Posted June 15, 2021 On 9/28/2012 at 1:09 AM, KevinMos3 said: I'm resurrecting an old thread here, but I have a couple labels to contribute. These are scans of my carts that I've cleaned up. I've matched the legal text font and positioning precisely. I could also scan Montezuma's Revenge, Q*bert, War Room, and some others not yet found here, but I'm not sure I'll have time. Here are two for now, in 300dpi: You have saved me! I bought a cartridge off eBay with a severely damaged label and this.. is.. what... I .. NEEEDED! THANK YOU!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave kaminski Posted May 6, 2022 Share Posted May 6, 2022 On 4/11/2016 at 12:03 PM, pboland said: If you need a label printed up, I can help. I have a pretty extensive library of Cart labels which I've cleanup/redraw. I do have a $20.00 minimum order (not including shipping), but you can just order more labels to fill the minimum. If you are interested please PM me and I can give you my full list of available labels. Do you still do colecovision replacement labels ? If you do I would like to purchase Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zinister Posted May 6, 2022 Share Posted May 6, 2022 Is there a Label somewhere that I can print out myself for Pitfall 2 by chance? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGuru Posted June 28, 2022 Share Posted June 28, 2022 I've just scanned in my pretty good condition Colecovision Pitfall cart label. It's got the usual deterioration from the glue that was used back then. To make it worse you may not realize that Activision carts were printed using diagonal patterns with dots of different colors next to each other to give the impression of a different color which was a common printing method back then. For example the orange is actually made up of red and yellow dots. The brown around the large Pitfall text is printed over orange and the blue sky is printed over the solid light blue which is actually one of the few solid colors. All this gets picked up by the scanner and looks pretty bad 40 years later. Anyway this is probably the best Colecovision Pitfall label scan on the internet For reference the actual label is 67mm x 80mm and is scanned at 300DPI. It would be nice if someone who is good with Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator could vectorize this so we all have a nice clean image to replace on our carts to make it shiny and new again :-) I also attached a couple of others I made for Lode Runner and the 16k European release of Donkey Kong. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGuru Posted July 15, 2022 Share Posted July 15, 2022 Here's another one I just did with a before picture too hehe! I'm slowing figuring out how these were originally done. Looks like they used a font with styles from at least 2 different fonts. It almost matches Century Gothic Bold but some of the numbers are different (particularly the 1 and 9) so I had to use different fonts sometimes even within the same word. I wish I knew exactly which font they used but it's now 30 years too late. It appears the labels were done with a word processing system with auto kerning and with paragraph text so the spaces between words as well as the individual characters themselves are squashed or stretched horizontally to fit the available space. In some cases I had to stretch or squash multiple single characters and I had to adjust the width of *every* word regardless to get it to fit the original scan. However the end result is a near perfect 1:1 copy within 0.1mm of the original. I'm no Photoshop master so the only problem is these take me about 6-10 hours to make ? So I'm only doing this for the carts I own that are trashed like this one is. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MMarcoux66 Posted August 12, 2022 Share Posted August 12, 2022 Has anyone done a Wiz of Id math label? I didn't see one and would love to get my hands on one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGuru Posted August 13, 2022 Share Posted August 13, 2022 (edited) I made one partially. It is accurate to the original with all text replaced with the correct truetype fonts (just common but non-free Helvetica) but I only found low quality pics so all the graphics are really bad and the label isn't very big (only 180dpi). Feel free to improve etc. Edited August 13, 2022 by TheGuru 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OriginalJohn Posted August 13, 2022 Share Posted August 13, 2022 9 hours ago, TheGuru said: I made one partially. It is accurate to the original with all text replaced with the correct truetype fonts (just common but non-free Helvetica) but I only found low quality pics so all the graphics are really bad and the label isn't very big (only 180dpi). Feel free to improve etc. Here is a transparent PNG and .AI for your label. Wizmath Label.ai 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MMarcoux66 Posted August 13, 2022 Share Posted August 13, 2022 2 hours ago, OriginalJohn said: Here is a transparent PNG and .AI for your label. Wizmath Label.ai 1.25 MB · 0 downloads Very nice and thanks for sharing. I will play with Photoshop and see if I finish it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGuru Posted August 16, 2022 Share Posted August 16, 2022 On 8/13/2022 at 11:01 PM, OriginalJohn said: Here is a transparent PNG and .AI for your label. Great! Thanks for that. I'm curious where this came from? Is there a secret archive of high quality Colecovision artwork somewhere? MMarcoux66: Here is the final 300dpi image. I made the background just white because it will print better. The grayness might just be the texture in the paper. It would be possible to make positioning more accurate and with 100% correct colors but that will require a high quality scan from an original cart. This is the best I can do right now. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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