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Old 04-28-2014, 01:32 PM   #132
cmabolt
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Re: Project Reno - 72 cheyenne rebuild

Well, while waiting for my paint to be done. I had my glove box bead blasted along with some other miscellaneous parts that will need matching new paint. Consequently, I had to remove my old build SPID sticker on the inner glovebox.

I use photoshop for work so decided to take a high resolution picture of the sticker and clean it up in photoshop as well as make the printed portion bolder. There was a lot of fade and discoloration after all these years.

I then took the finished file to fedex office and had them print it on a thin card stock with clear self laminating sticker. The result was a very clean color copy of the original in the exact same size ready to stick on the new paint and was $4.50. No it's not a perfect reproduction of the original sticker, and won't win you any awards if that's your thing, but it's not expensive and looks exactly like the original would have in 1972. I was slightly worried about fading, but it doesn't see much light inside the glovebox and today's inks are a hell of a lot better then they were in 1972.


If a perfect reproduction is what you need there are forum members that do that.

Love it when a plan works.
Chris
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