{"id":13909,"date":"2018-10-20T15:59:55","date_gmt":"2018-10-20T14:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/?p=13909"},"modified":"2018-10-23T18:20:51","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T17:20:51","slug":"pinball-expo-2018-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/2018\/10\/20\/pinball-expo-2018-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"PINBALL EXPO 2018 – SATURDAY"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saturday is the last official day of Pinball Expo, although the tournaments continue into Sunday.<\/p>\n

We are back in the Seminars Hall for a full day of talks. The first seminar was by Mirco Stefan from Mirco Playfields.<\/p>\n

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Mirco Stefan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

He talked about how he first got into making fully-licensed pinball playfields, with the first being Attack from Mars.\u00a0 That router was pretty basic requiring manual changing of the cutting tool, so it wasn’t long before he expanded and developed his own multi-tool router.<\/p>\n

Now he has a fully-robotic system doing everything from playfield cutting, insert placement and gluing, direct digital printing and clearcoating.<\/p>\n

He said they have a visual robot for the inserts which can sort through an assortment of inserts, detect the colour and shape of them and sort them so they can be inserted into the appropriate holes.<\/p>\n

He said they have a new digital printer which can print onto all kinds of different materials using the same printing method to ensure consistency of quality and colour.<\/p>\n

Mirco said they don’t really have a minimum production run, as long as they have the CAD file and the artwork they can do individual or custom playfields.<\/p>\n