Decal help needed

[JSN]

Hey guys. I am having trouble printing off some decals I got from the pirate library and a few other places and want to try on some figs. I have no problem resizing them but when they print some of the colours look rubbish, particularly red and green ( I have a feeling blue might too but I haven't tried one yet) while yellow and black look ok. When printed the reds and greens look faded and a bit grainy. I am using a Kodak Easyshare 5100 printer with 90g/m2 paper and resizing and printing the decals with MS Word. Any help would be very much appreciated.

John

[Shoc]

Colours on decals always do look bad when printed on normal paper, as I have done. The right kind of paper to use would be transparent waterslide paper. I've never used it, but from photo's I've seen of it used on minifigs it looks much better than normal paper. I'm no expert though.

Hope this helps.

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Edited May 27, 2008 by Shoc

[JSN]

Thanks Shoc. I will see if I can get anything like that tomorrow and give it a try. If I use the transparent stuff will I have to remove the torso printing from my figs before applying decals?

[Shoc]

Thanks Shoc. I will see if I can get anything like that tomorrow and give it a try. If I use the transparent stuff will I have to remove the torso printing from my figs before applying decals?

Yes, you would... I hear Brasso is good for that. I think I'm gonna get some of this paper myself, and make some proper decals.

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