Quote Originally Posted by FABombjoy
Quote Originally Posted by YoshiM
I think I'm going to find a way to make labels that "look and feel" like the originals-all with the power of a PC
Not to sound negative, but you are going to have one hell of a time trying to get the halftoning and color matching correct with home/semi-pro equipment. You will also need to spend a fair amount of time seeking/scanning/touching up high-quality originals.

You can buy paper stock that matches the gloss of the originals.. at least, mostly matches. But without having them made on an offset press & die-cut to size, you're unlikely to fool anybody. Not that I'm saying that your goal is to fool somebody, but if we're discussing video games as a collectable this is unlikely to have a positive effect on the value of a game.

Many arcade machines are restored with reproduction art. Some of the companies reproing the artwork use big inkjets, and some use multiple color spot-matched presses. You'll know the difference when you compare them. Some people restore with NOS artwork, but that's not so easy to find.
Again, I'm sensing a type of negativity toward "restoring" carts ("You're unlikely to fool anybody"). In a place where collectors go near orgasmic when an Atari prototype ROM not only gets found but burned onto a chip, put into an honest-to-goodness Atari cartridge case and then gets a professional looking label and manual and then sold (which, if it's a copywrited work is pretty much illegal no matter how you slice it), this negativity is borderline ironic. What makes cartridges so special as opposed to say a classic Mustang or a classic piece of furniture? Why can't a gamer who has a rare but beat up cartridge NOT have the choice to restore it to look nice?