Well so far today I got a good amount done. The boards have been shipped out for repairs and I got some information regarding the backglass. I went to Buffalo's biggest print shop and talked to them about doing a reproduction backglass. For starters, they wanted to charge me $100 just to do raw scans of my backglass for me. I said no way and went to my work. I was able to remove the top half of our Xerox copier and use the flatbed scanner to scan my backglass into the computer. It took 6 scans to get the whole thing. I scanned it in at 600dpi and each file was 50 megs! Wow. Now I get the fun task of stitching all 6 pieces together in Photoshop and then touching up all of the areas that the paint is missing or flaking. Once I'm done, I'll have a really nice looking full size digital replica of the glass. From there, I'm just going to have to take it to the print shop and have them apply it to a new piece of glass!
The copier after I ripped the top off.
This is one of the 6 raw scans. This image has been reduced by 80% to upload. So you can only imagine how big it is at 100% for editing. Also notice how many defects need to be corrected.
