Our pinball printing history
early 2000s through today
We expanded our well-established commercial printing company to begin supplying direct-to-customer companies with painstakingly recreated, highest quality licensed replacement backglasses (we do not directly sell backglasses ourselves). This has since expanded into replacement plastic sets, cabinet decals, and translites.
2015
We got permission to develop our own licensed pinball products for direct sale to customers. We launched Outside Edge at the Chicago Pinball Expo with our custom clocks, coaster sets, and lampshades, winning the Best Exhibit award.
2016
We attended the Texas Pinball Festival in the Spring and the Chicago Expo in the Fall, adding t-shirts, comfort pin mats, and license plates to our products. We won updated our booth walls with the some of our favorite pinball characters, and won Best Exhibit at the Expo for the second year.
2017
We launched our revolutionary Hardtops at the Chicago Expo, and won Best Exhibit for the third year in a row.
2018
We attended PinFest in Allentown and the Chicago Expo, adding new Hardtop titles.
It became financially impractical to continue producing our other products, so we begin phasing out the sales of our lampshades, coaster sets, clocks, pinmats, and t-shirts to enable focusing on Hardtops.
It became financially impractical to continue producing our other products, so we begin phasing out the sales of our lampshades, coaster sets, clocks, pinmats, and t-shirts to enable focusing on Hardtops.
2019
We had a smaller booth at the Cleveland Pinball Show, mostly to sell our remaining stock of non-Hardtop products.
We unfortunately had to shut down operations for a few months over the summer. However, we were back up and running in late November with a new space and new equipment!
We unfortunately had to shut down operations for a few months over the summer. However, we were back up and running in late November with a new space and new equipment!
2020
Shows cancelled. Made some videos for Virtual Pinball Expo.
2021
We attended the first-ever PinBrew in northern Ohio. Our Hardtop Homecoming had nine Hardtopped machines on display.
We also went to Pinball Expo in Chicago, and debuted a new booth design featuring oversized Hardtop art. We featured a Hardtopped Jokerz on loan from a happy customer.
2022
Our booth at PinBrew 2 featured five machines.
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Our booth at PinBall Expo #38 featured a Hardtopped Firepower and Eight Ball. We offered 33 Hardtop titles for sale. We also had a live installation by Keith of A Pirate's Life — our new Bitchnglitter cabinet decals!
2023
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We brought a new booth to PinBrew 3! Thanks to two happy customers, there was a nice Hardtopped Firepower and Silverball on display. There may have even been a Bigfoot sighting...
At Pinball Expo 2023, we had 38 Hardtop titles. We also demonstrated the excellent industrial-strength Ultrasonic cleaning machines. They performed some cleaning miracles on a lot of old parts at the show. Also, our Hardtopped Firepower was on hand with the first public reveal of a few gameplay mods and a new set of custom-designed plastics, soon to be for sale!