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Originally Posted by cinqster
I'm going to watch this one with interest Giovanni. Can you give us more details on the decal papers you've used please? Are you using an inkjet - the results look really good to me!
John S.
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Hey John , have a look on your site: we all are nail down at our desks and you turn aroun with that sweet?
congratulate if your, fantastic stuff
abt question: as said, to make short a long....
1- first kit(12-14 YO) had decals craked and yellowed, also I try to apply Hasegawa brand on a can and it's no horrible
2- I made my sheet trought vector graphics (Illustrator) on Testors decals paper: David (SRC) sent me 1 pack. The strange is that: every paper I try on my epson stylus photo 2100 raccomend you to print at 360 dpi!
this should be right for drying problrms becouse the printer give less ink, in the other hand the printer is too fast to let the ink dry correctly. I lost almost the entire pack trying and at the end I found out a solution for that paper:
- basically the problem is drying, so is better print at 2400/4800 or max res. and so turn speed to minimum
- isn't enough to let drying inks on that paper, dragging wheels could keep all the ink: so I disabled (from up with tape) all the dragging wheels except the 2 at the sides: you need to print behind these 2 wheels, and let the inks dry for a lot... then coat.
I try also with my old epson 1200 which have not pigmented inks on that paper and work very bad, like a wrong photographic paper.
3 the better I found out are BMF "Expert Choice" paper: i try the transparent kind with a complex and really small carbon texture having great results, al least like SMS sheets. Unfortunatly I havent here right now.
4 at my local store I check one new delta box and decals was ok, so I buy it. So I'm at work with these decals: a nightmare
better the old cracked one, was cracked but react well at set/sol. These new react bad: look ok if you use nothing or set&water solution. Delta is like a shoes box but have some complex shapes
.It come out not bad but took me a lot of time: soon a photo update