printing Decals?

[rayman14085]

Has anyone ever printed decals from a PC? I have the white decal paper and am trying to print some for my shortline. Any suggestions?

 

[Larry]

There's about 5 threads already on this forum about printing decals. Most of us do it including me, but you can't print white letters.

 

[Chris Roy]

I got the Pulsar DecalPro system & it's pretty cool. It's a fairly involved process, but IMHO well worth the effort:

http://www.pulsarprofx.com/decalpro/Vertical/1_MENU/1d_Components/Components.html

 

[BIG-D]

ill have to ask but a buddy has one that prints white

 

[Motley]

Why all the recent decal threads? Everybody thought of the same thing at once?

 

[tomustang]

Why all the recent decal threads? Everybody thought of the same thing at once?

Someone bumped them for some apparent reason

 

[Larry]

I bumped almost all of them that I could find, because, basically they all cover the same thing, "How to make Decals". There were about 5 more that I left out.

 

[SRN]

I got the Pulsar DecalPro system & it's pretty cool. It's a fairly involved process, but IMHO well worth the effort:

http://www.pulsarprofx.com/decalpro/Vertical/1_MENU/1d_Components/Components.html

I looked through their web site. From what I could see, there is no way to make a sheet of decals (multiple copies of the same thing) that could be used as you need them. It looked like the whole sheet had to be used at once.

Is that correct?

 

[rayman14085]

I thought this forum was about helping and learning, some of us are not expert modelers that you seem to claim to be...........

 

[Larry]

I thought this forum was about helping and learning, some of us are not expert modelers that you seem to claim to be...........

Sorry-Sorry-Sorry. It won't happen again. I'll only make comments about things I know "Everything about" & leave the rest to you.

 

[leghome]

I am glad you bumped them Larry I had lost track of a couple of them. Keep up the good work.

 

[Chris Roy]

I looked through their web site. From what I could see, there is no way to make a sheet of decals (multiple copies of the same thing) that could be used as you need them. It looked like the whole sheet had to be used at once.

Is that correct?

If you go through all the steps on a whole sheet, then the whole thing should be used at once - but if you print up a whole sheet and don't spray the final coat of adhesive onto it, you can just cut off what you want as you need it, give it a blast of adhesive, and you're good to go.

 

[ianacole]

I thought this forum was about helping and learning, some of us are not expert modelers that you seem to claim to be...........

I think Larry was just trying to help you answer your own question...

 

[SRN]

Thanks, Chris. That's good to hear.

 

[Ray Dunakin]

I print my own decals all the time. I'm on a Mac, not a PC, but that shouldn't make much difference. I also print some scale signs on self-adhesive, ink-jet printable vinyl too.

In some cases you can print white or other light colored letters, by using white decal paper and printing a dark background around the lettering. The background color should match whatever color the lettering will be applied to. This usually is easiest to do when the background color is plain old black.

 

[IowaFarmBoy]

I think Larry was just trying to help you answer your own question...

That was what I understood, too. And I think that all of us who make our own decals are trying to indicate that it is really not difficult unless you need light colors. In that vein I am standardizing on a tan color for home road freight cars (freelance railroad) because black lettering shows up well.

 

[hminky]

I got the Pulsar DecalPro system & it's pretty cool. It's a fairly involved process, but IMHO well worth the effort:

http://www.pulsarprofx.com/decalpro/Vertical/1_MENU/1d_Components/Components.html

I got this setup a few years ago and couldn't get it to really work to put lettering on cars. I notice that the model railroad example he prints onto decal paper. That probably works better.

I feel it will be my backup for my ALPS.

Do you have any pictures?

Harold