Gradient in homemade decals

[willimo]

I need to make some decals for a little side project that I'm doing. I am, however, using a gradient (from solid black to white) as part of the logo, and I am unsure how this will work using my Kinko's print-and-laser-copy method.



I know a lot of you have Alps printers, and I'd be even more suspect of their ability to do this since I understand they need to use vectors or something. In any case - do any of you home printer folks have any suggestions on how to make this come out well with a Kinko's printer and copier or something similar? Any tips would be great. Thanks!

[gionc]

TBH ALPS printers may have a lot more issues with gradients than almost any ink jet in the market, due to the resolution and due to the transfer method.

Sorry I don't know what is a Kinko but with a good cheap ink jet ( I have one 9600x2400 dpi ) you can't have troubles printing your vector (or raster) gradients on decal paper, just like you haven't on photo paper. Different thing for lasers: I don't know very last generation but you should have a very HI resolution on lasers to rend a smooth gradient, the laser electrostatic tecnology do also often banding on gradients.

[white_R34]

Hello there let me get this right your wanting to chang the black shaped part to white on a black background I hope I'm right and to Gionc about Kinkos I think he's talking about the company called Kinkos (I think).
I looked for just a mac. device called Kinkos nothing so don't wast you time looking. FedEx Kinkos link here:
http://www.fedex.com/us/customersupp..._3.html?link=4
Hay Will I'l tack you image over to kink copys here in hammond and see what they say ok I'm not going to take you image with out your (say so).
ok my be I was rong on the back ground. just white for the states shap your back ground will look some what med blue-like. I found this wile looking around.
http://www.tizag.com/cssT/background.php
I'm going to leave this stuff alone this stuff is over my head lol.