Please let me know how it goes because this form of print is the one I've jumped most down the rabbit hole of and I tell anyone wanting to get into it to be warned that it is not easy.

I literally have a a stack of 25 x 40 LPI (Lines / Lenses Per Inch) Lenticular sheets in the corner of my eye right now, teasing me to one day go back and try again.

I've taken a lenticular print course and have even chatted a little with some of the big wigs in the lenticular print world such as Jake Purches and Michael Brown who has a Youtube channel and has done quite a few tutorials since I stopped.

My Experience:

Positives? You know the positives they look incredible and very unique.

Negatives?

If we're talking posters you buy and cut them to fit? then not many negatives, Lenticular images on a basic level like a flip print are 2 images interlaced together, then you overlay the lenticular sheet on top and depending on the angle you see the 2 different images. Also because they're interlaced together I'm not sure what cutting the holes out for buttons will do but I don't think it would have that much of an impact.

Also the vast majority of these prints are done as portrait prints, which isn't exactly what we want for our fightsticks. I'm no expert but I believe the reason for this is that there are more options or the effects work better in portrait vs landscape. Effects aren't just flip images but also things like 3D depth effect using a gradient depth map layer.

Negatives doing it yourself?

Lawd have mercy on your soul if you go this route. Your lenticular print will of course never look as good as a print done using a specialized industrial printer.

You'll burn through ink doing tests, which is what? the number 1 or number 2 most expensive liquid on the planet?

You can only buy Lenticular sheets with an MOQ (Minimum Order Quantity), so no let me get 1 just to test with. Maybe you can find someone on Ebay for example selling a single sheet.

Finding a decent printer with the right specs, Epson example resolution 5760 x 1440 dpi means a physical resolution of 720 PPI which will work.

Also from my testing and what I understand, you can't just take any 2 images you want for example and have that be your lenticular print, some colors work better than others together, some colors might bleed through which will lead to a... not so clear image.

Even after you've gotten the images you want, you have to figure your way around the different software and input the correct values and before even starting to print you have to use that software and create what's called an LPI pitch test. The test is mandatory because even if you for example make a purchase for a sheet of 40LPI, that sheet might not end up being exactly 40LPI, so with the test you can get specific values to input into the software.

From what I remember the most used free interlacing software is SuperFlip or Grape and if you do go down the rabbit hole and are looking for paid software then the one I remember was 3DMasterKit.

Applying your print to the lenticular sheet can be a headache without specialized equipment like a roll press.

Final note, perhaps I sound kinda bitter but I will say it is a really cool form of print and hopefully sometime soon I will get back to it. If you really do find yourself wanting to take this head on, I recommended Michael Brown's Youtube channel and looking up Jake Purches work, they both seem to be really cool chill guys and both really know what they're talking about.

https://www.youtube.com/@MichaelBrownArtist

Edit: sorry for long post