How did Atari apply side art to their arcade cabinets?

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One of the most fascinating sequences in Atari’s arcade manufacturing process in the early 1980s was the application of the fabulous artwork that adorned all of its cabinets from the golden age of arcade gaming. Tony Temple at The Arcade Blogger thought it would be interesting to take a look at how this cabinet artwork was actually printed. The technique used is called screen printing (often called silkscreen printing), and it’s a world away from the large-format digital printers used today. This great footage below shows the process in full. Shot in 1982, the cabinet sides being printed are for Atari’s Quantum arcade cabinet, it is interesting that this happened to be filmed at the time, as the cabinet run was relatively low at only 500 cabinets: See the video below and more in the po