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Originally Posted by 356speedster
I've read a lot of decal printing posts, and most of them ends up with an advice to get an ALPS DIE-SUB (Thermal wax) printer.
But the ALPS printeres are hard to find, expensive and not very reliable, so I am curious to know if anyone have tried to print decals from cheap DIE-SUB photoprinters?
Canon got a range of photoprinters that use DIE-SUB (Canon Selphy 400, 500 and 600 series), and you can get them as cheap as 50$ brand new.
These printers only have 3 colors, wich means you still can't print white, but they put down each color on its own layer and finish of with a glossy clear protective layer.
In theory this would print nice even colors (withoyt the ink-jet dots) wich are sealed and waterproofed right from the printer, but I'd like to know if anyone have tried this before I buy one since I already got a ink-jet photoprinter and dont need two printers for photo-printing.
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Die sub printers do not work on decal paper. The ink is vaporizes in die sub printing and a special paper is required to absorb the ink gas. Alps printers come in regular impact printers with an add on part to make them a die sub printer which for our use is not required.