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 Barfly101 |
Decals - My on going quest..... |
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Posts: 643 (04/13/08 09:28 PM) Home Racing Guru! |
Ok so the latest is a web site offering water slide decal paper you can use with most any inkjet printer. I have not tried it yet but will be ordering this
week. Here's the link...
http://www.mcgpaper.com/decalkits.html If anyone has used this paper before, please chime in with your thoughts Joe. |
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Posts: 380 (04/13/08 11:09 PM) Home Racing Forum Veteran |
I stick with the testor paper and it sticks for me!!!
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Posts: 619 (04/14/08 12:20 AM) Home Racing Guru! |
I bought 10 sheets each of clear and white for my laser printer. Have not had the chance to use them yet. Hey BF if you have decal sheets, scan then in at
200-300 dpi and email me a copy scale does not matter you can scale down without loss of qualiy. If you have them smaller than 1:43 scan them higher and we. An
scale up a bit. When I get enough of them, I will make some CDs for whoever.
Bill |
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Posts: 619 (04/14/08 12:20 AM) Home Racing Guru! |
I bought 10 sheets each of clear and white for my laser printer. Have not had the chance to use them yet. Hey BF if you have decal sheets, scan then in at
200-300 dpi and email me a copy scale does not matter you can scale down without loss of qualiy. If you have them smaller than 1:43 scan them higher and we. An
scale up a bit. When I get enough of them, I will make some CDs for whoever.
Bill |
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stranger205 |
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Posts: 99 (04/14/08 12:23 AM) |
I don't know if this will work. I just got a picture of it in my mind's eyeball. I do that all the time. It's weird.
And when I remember something, I "see" it. Strange... Take a piece of graph paper and print your decals on scotch tape through a window cut with a razor blade or xacto knife at the correct spot where the printer starts the decal verbage and of a length to contain it all. The ruler view in your graphics editor will help you align with the window or "decal slot" cut in the graph paper. Now, get the scotch tape out. I know, I know.... inkjet ink bubbles up on scotch tape and doesn't dry and smears and will not work for decals. You gotta think outside the mainstream mentality, like the Stranger does. Apply the tape from the backside so the inkjet sprays onto the adhesive backing of the tape. Merely use your editor to flip horizontally or, mirror, the decal you wish to print. When you peel it from the paper, there will be no paper to pull off into the tape and ruin the decal, since the window gives you a big margin. In fact, just trim it out, don't mess with pulling it off the paper. Stick the tape in place on your painted car and trim closely. If you're going for the gusto, clear and sand, clear and sand, clear and sand to eliminate edges on the decals. I just pulled this out of my posterious cerebellumus. It sounds like it should work...I would try it but my cartridges are dry.  Don't get fingerprints on the adhesive, leave a stout margin ( maybe
1/8" all around the perimeter of the decal slot, ie, 1 inch tape on a 3/4 inch window ) so the printer don't get an edge of the tape and run with it.
Don't bow the paper by pulling the tape too taut. Remember to print a mirror image, and on the stickum-puckey. If it don't work, I'll be a
monkey's uncle.
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Posts: 71 (04/14/08 01:45 AM) |
Won't the sticky side of the tape stick to the roller of your printer???
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Posts: 621 (04/14/08 10:43 AM) Home Racing Guru! |
When you try to print on the non-permeable surface (cellophane), even the adhesive side, I think the ink is going to puddle up a bit and start touching the
print heads..... when that magenta (especially, though not exclusively a problem) ink hits your print head, I suspect you'll be wishing that you
hadn't. BF just remember to use the clear acrylic spray after you print your decals, its not an issue with the laser printable water slide, but obviously
is with the inkjet. The water slide decals for inkjets, I would suspect, are much like the transparency film for inkjets, which I have used. They are a
slightly porous clear material, and have a pebble surface on one side to allow the ink to flow down into very small pits, rather than bubbling up... This give
it time to settle and actually dry without hitting the print heads..... Stranger, give it a shot... let me know how it works out, I hope I'm wrong, because
to be honest, packing tape is a lot cheaper than the waterslide decals for thinks like numbers, (though water slide has the flexibility to conform to car
bodies better). It would be a great tool to add to the arsenal if it works.
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Posts: 205 (04/14/08 12:43 PM) |
I just returned from Kinkos Copy, they will print a 8.5" x 11" sheet of decals on clear or white backing for $1.99. Dont know how they feel about
copy right emblems though.
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Posts: 646 (04/14/08 08:14 PM) Home Racing Guru! |
Well you know Dave, I bought some of that clear sticky backed paper and printed some pretty nice looking decals. The problem I had was that the non printed
portions (the clear) of the decals was really easy to notice especially on a dark background. Now on lighter backgrounds such a bright yellow or white, it
was still noticeable but not nearly as bad. But all in all, when I looked at the cars I had applied them too, it just ended up looking like a bad sticker job.
I called them 50 footers, look pretty darn good from 50 foot away
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Posts: 623 (04/14/08 09:07 PM) Home Racing Guru! |
farmnurd, you are talking about just plain decal stock at kinkos right? Not waterslide? I think the regular clear decals are too thick for detail work.
Waterslide is much thinner, and conforms to body shapes a bit better. I bought dome clear adhesive decal sheets a while ago and realized my mistake when I
pulled the first sheet out.
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Posts: 207 (04/15/08 08:09 AM) |
Yeah, that was plain decal stock. Saw a show called How Do They Do It? on the science channel and it showed them making and applying silicon whole car decals.
Pretty interesting stuff, way out of our league though. The episode description is about mirrors and making a 2 dimensional design for a 3D car.
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