Looking to make some custom, white boxcars. Anyone ever try these dry transfer paper?
http://www.decalpaper.com/category-s/7.htm
The also make decal paper and temporary Tattoos! Ha
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I have used that company's other products but not the dry transfer paper.
My question is how do you print white??? No ink jet printer prints white and only one laser prints white and it alone is $5,000!! So if you are applying the 'dry transer' to a white surface I am sure it would work well. (note their 'sample' shows a black logo being applied to a white coffee cup!)
So as long as you have a ALPS printer or that $5K printer it should work....but working in the decal biz, and having produced over 500,000 dry transfers....I like decal better.
Planning to remove lettering from white boxcars to create custom cars for an Eagle Scout project. I tried Testors decal paper and thought this might be easier to get over rivets.
Originally Posted by RichO:
Planning to remove lettering from white boxcars to create custom cars for an Eagle Scout project. I tried Testors decal paper and thought this might be easier to get over rivets.
I might still go with decal paper.
This GP has a decal over the entire end.....I used Solvaset and an X-Acto and warm paper towel to get the decal to settle over the details.....rivets are easy compare to this!!!
The entire end is covered with a decal. Over the grab irons and marker lights.
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Very Nice! I’ll go back to decals. Thanks AMCDave.
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Very Nice! I’ll go back to decals. Thanks AMCDave.
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MACDAVE,
I read one of your other post about not using pixilated images. What software (free) is available for vector type graphics?
Originally Posted by AMCDave:
I have used that company's other products but not the dry transfer paper.
My question is how do you print white??? No ink jet printer prints white and only one laser prints white and it alone is $5,000!! So if you are applying the 'dry transer' to a white surface I am sure it would work well. (note their 'sample' shows a black logo being applied to a white coffee cup!)
So as long as you have a ALPS printer or that $5K printer it should work....but working in the decal biz, and having produced over 500,000 dry transfers....I like decal better.
I use CorelDraw for my art work. I have used it since V3 and now use the current VX5 (fancy way to say V15) I have never used any of the freeware vector programs so I can't really say which one is any good. You may want to Goggle it and see what users are saying about the different ones available. Old version of CorelDraw are pretty cheap.
