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Originally Posted by drunken monkey
does that mean though, that you'll need to mask off and paint the white areas under that decal? Or is it white paper to begin with?
how is the decal detail (using inkjet) with small decal designs such as oil filter labels, battery labels, etc?
what's the print resolution of your printer?
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The ones that are shown here I printed on clear decal paper so obviously the white portions of the decals,the letters in Elonex,Manx International and Audi are all clear.The reason they appear white is because they are on a white background (Tamiya TS26 paint cap) If the background you are placing the decals onto is white then this takes care of the white portions (as the background colour shows through) So there's no problem using the clear paper.
You can also get white paper as well,so if you are placing the decal on a darker background you can use the white paper.The only problem is you would either have to be very good with the scissors when you cut the decals out or white will show around the edge of the design,or you can print a border of your background colour around your design so that whilst cutting it out you need not be so precise.
I've not made any battery or oil filter labels etc yet,but I have made a very small Bilstein Shock Absorber logo and the writing on it is tiny,but it shows up perfectly and is very neat and readable (example shown below) so I think it would be possible to make labels for batteries and oil filters and the like.
The printers resolution is 9600 X 2400 DPI.
The Bilstein logo.(it's about 8-10mm wide) Looks a bit blurred but thats just me with the camera it is perfect in reality.
