custom felt print design?

[p5woody]

less then a year ago I designed custom labels to go on china clays from PGI. I am now rebuilding a table I made years ago. Since I am rebuilding it, I was thinking about going with custom felt from PGI. It is an oval table with no racetrack.

Here are my chips front and back and an initial felt design I came up with for the table. The skeleton is from my bounty chip.

What do you think? How will it print? any comments or suggestions?

[Martini]

I've played on a printed surface a while ago and all I remember was that it made the table really busy and it interfered with reading the board easily. Generally the printed table surfaces in casinos and seen on TV have window areas in the middle for the board cards. So you might want to try to simulate the table surface and play on it for a while to see if your pattern works for you.

[p5woody]

I've played on a printed surface a while ago and all I remember was that it made the table really busy and it interfered with reading the board easily. Generally the printed table surfaces in casinos and seen on TV have window areas in the middle for the board cards. So you might want to try to simulate the table surface and play on it for a while to see if your pattern works for you.

Thanks, that was one of my concerns will it be too busy?  I have never played on a felt with a logo on it.

Maybe I should take the graphics out of the middle and put them on the sides.  Maybe something like this?

[Martini]

Yeah, I think that would work better personally but then again I don't have experience in that area. You could simulate your table surface by color printing your design out on your current table and run some boards. Surface texture is obviously not going to be the same but I think it would give some indication of the playability of the surface design. Unless I were really sure about how it would work I'd personally be pretty concerned about shelling out the money for a printed felt. The way I see it, printing the second design will get you all the upside of having a printed cloth but without the potential downside of readability.

FWIW, I prefer the second design on based on aesthetics and practicality.

[p5woody]

I like these better, I made the skeleton's fill capacity 20%.  Does anybody know how well this would translate to print?

[Martini]

Probably best to talk to your print vendor about how something like that would work.

[p5woody]

I have been working on my design, Here are a couple of more I have come up with.

[Magoddi]

I think that these two are the best so far with the blue table being my favorite.

[holdemholmes]

I think that these two are the best so far with the blue table being my favorite.

x2. I prefer the blue over the green to begin with, and I like the design on the blue table better as well.

[p5woody]

I ended up building a new table.  Here is the end result.

If your interested, table build information can be found here: http://www.scottkeen.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=30178

[William]

Turned out really well . The rail is slightly raised from the playing surface right? You planning to do anything special with that raise?

[p5woody]

You are correct it is raised 3/4 of an inch, not planning anything special, thought I would try it to see if I like it.  If not I can always remove it.  Since I was building a new table I thought I would try it.

[p5woody]

I had my first game on it last night.  It was a great table to play on, the chips showed up just fine.  I asked for feedback and nobody had a problem with chips blending in.  I was concerned but there really wasn't any problems.

The only negative was how the cards slide or didn't slide.  The cards definetely stick a little more then we were used to.  Since we rotate the deal, dealing from the ends took a little more effort.  Once you got used to it, it wasn't bad.  Not sure if this will improve over time.  Also being an 8 player table helped as well.  If you have a dedicated dealer, I think they would really like it because they can control the cards better.