El Capitan - The Amtrak Version

No clue, they would not elucidate.  As for the others, they all said talk to Microscale.  It's a licensing thing, you see.  Or, at least that is what they said to me.

Some opinion and some fact of the top of my head from experience.

The digital millennium "fair" copyright act stipulates anyone can print or reproduce a said thing upon personal use and or limited use for non financial gain. Do not ask me ask a lawyer; why MS would drop that line about "licensing" on a custom order sounds like cop out to me. It's likely not worth their time anymore to do short run custom prints. Also in their defense some custom order may have been done "recently" that was sold by its commissioner to public sale that could have gotten MS in some kind of legal tangle. Just for example.

Bob2 you can elaborate on this I would guess.

Seriously seek the Digital Millennium Fair Copyright Act; I could find the section in regard to limited personal use reproduction.

It's an Internet thing these days.

Producing a model and selling these models is not included in this arena -selling those models is for profit and the producer would need to obtain a license from the copyright holder.

It is easier for a producer such as MS to take the high road and not fuss with a possible legal action on small stuff like 100 sheets of Union Pacific logos. I would guess.

Sounds like what he meant was it is not legal for another decal supplier to take Microscale's HO decals and blow them up.  You can understand that.

 

If you do your own artwork, I suspect a different decal supplier can provide you with what you want. mtrak probably doesn't much care.

 

As I see it, the printing process is the hangup.  The Alps printer does dot-matrix, which is not quite as good as silk screening.

A commercial decal printer making a decal to sell to you is doing just that.  It is not for their personal use nor will they do it not for financial gain.

 

It's all water under the bridge.  They said no and I have no way to force them to do it.

Besides, the easiest way around it is to use a color laser printer to copy their HO decals at 181% on to plain decal paper.  It all depends on the willingness of a copy center to allow you to make the decals on their printer if you do not own such a printer.  The fuzer can be damaged by the decal film and ink jet printers do not work.