Crappy reproduction on water slide decal paper. 1/3
 

Here are samples of printing to Testors water slide ink jet decal paper.
The ink seems to crack or reticulate resulting in clear lines with in the
black areas.

Quite frustrating. I created all the art work in VISIO. The S meter was
scanned and cleaned up in MS PAINT and re-lined on VISIO. It looks great on
the screen and on regular paper.

I wonder if I received some old inventory from the hobby shop.

Any one have any experience laminating ink jet paper to make dial scales?

Thanks, Paul P

Crappy reproduction on water slide decal paper. 1/3
 

"Paul P" REMOVE paul @ REMOVE ppinyot . REMOVEcom wrote in message
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Here are samples of printing to Testors water slide ink jet decal paper.
The ink seems to crack or reticulate resulting in clear lines with in the
black areas.

Quite frustrating. I created all the art work in VISIO. The S meter was
scanned and cleaned up in MS PAINT and re-lined on VISIO. It looks great
on
the screen and on regular paper.

I wonder if I received some old inventory from the hobby shop.

Any one have any experience laminating ink jet paper to make dial scales?

Thanks, Paul P



Not with inkjet paper.. but I have transparencies that I can print on
beautifully with our laser printer... if you would like some, send me the
files and I'll print them out and mail them to you. You can attach the
transparencies to whatever backing you want to use.

Crappy reproduction on water slide decal paper. 1/3
 

Not with inkjet paper.. but I have transparencies that I can print on
beautifully with our laser printer... if you would like some, send me the
files and I'll print them out and mail them to you. You can attach the
transparencies to whatever backing you want to use.

Brenda, Can you handle VISIO files?

Paul P

Crappy reproduction on water slide decal paper. 1/3
 

Not with inkjet paper.. but I have transparencies that I can print on
beautifully with our laser printer... if you would like some, send me the
files and I'll print them out and mail them to you. You can attach the
transparencies to whatever backing you want to use.



I have used transparencies that are made for inkjet printers and have had
good luck. Staples in Canada sells them.

Brian



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Crappy reproduction on water slide decal paper. 1/3
 

"Paul P" REMOVE paul @ REMOVE ppinyot . REMOVEcom wrote in message
news:Z9KIj.4421$Re7.1251@trnddc04...
Here are samples of printing to Testors water slide ink jet decal paper.
The ink seems to crack or reticulate resulting in clear lines with in the
black areas.

Quite frustrating. I created all the art work in VISIO. The S meter was
scanned and cleaned up in MS PAINT and re-lined on VISIO. It looks great
on
the screen and on regular paper.

I wonder if I received some old inventory from the hobby shop.

Any one have any experience laminating ink jet paper to make dial scales?

Thanks, Paul P



Have you tried overhead projector transparencies?

Just a thought.
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"Paul P" REMOVE paul @ REMOVE ppinyot . REMOVEcom wrote in message
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Not with inkjet paper.. but I have transparencies that I can print on
beautifully with our laser printer... if you would like some, send me the
files and I'll print them out and mail them to you. You can attach the
transparencies to whatever backing you want to use.

Brenda, Can you handle VISIO files?

Paul P

I really don't know. What's the file extension? I have a pretty good photo
program that can handle a lot of different file types. I may need them
transposed into something like a jpg, TIFF, etc.. but I can let you know
more once I know the file extension... or, you can send me a file, and I can
play with it and see how it works.

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I really don't know. What's the file extension?

VSD

I assume the transparencies should be printed backwards so the printed
surface can face the mounting material.

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"William Sommerwerck" wrote in message
. ..
I really don't know. What's the file extension?

VSD

I assume the transparencies should be printed backwards so the printed
surface can face the mounting material.


Don't think that would be a problem, since it's a simple matter to 'mirror'
the image before printing, or even in the print queue IIRC.

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"Brenda Ann" wrote in message
...

"William Sommerwerck" wrote in message
. ..
I really don't know. What's the file extension?

VSD

I assume the transparencies should be printed backwards so the printed
surface can face the mounting material.


Don't think that would be a problem, since it's a simple matter to
'mirror' the image before printing, or even in the print queue IIRC.


Just did some experimentation.

First, I cropped out everything but one meter shot (did this for both
meters). Then, I made sure that the size matched the graticules on the ruler
in the shot. Next, I turned off the color rendition in my photo app, and
mirrored the image so that the printing would be on the back side of the
transparency when attached to the meter face. I ran both of these to my
laser printer and printed them onto transparencies. Of the two, the one
where the color had been removed from the original turned out better, with
much less background clutter from the original color scan.

If your original meter face is indeed ~60.8mm, I can send you these
transparencies and you can see if they suit you. If so, I can have you scan
the dial(s) and e-mail those to me, and I can do the same for them, and send
those to you, too. Please let me know.

Crappy reproduction on water slide decal paper.
 

On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 22:40:19 GMT, "Brian MW0GKX"
wrote:

People. You can't live with 'em and it's illegal to hunt them...except in
Texas.
Only people we hunt in Texas are disabled UK radio amateurs...they
make good BBQ...