Decal printing

[kipperthedog]

Has anyone used a product like this....

http://www.craftycomputerpaper.co.uk/.- ... er_151.htm

....to make frame decals? Is worthwhile? Are they robust?

I am thinking it might look nicer laquered over than cut vinyl.

 

[unkleGsif]

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Fairly sure that's what a friend of mine at work uses, who prints custom guitar decals for peeps all over the world...
Had him do my bars and forks


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[FluffyChicken]

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There is a post, quite a few years old now, using waterslip paper. I think it was that paper you link to as well.
Looked really good. I also have a feeling a set of my forks where redone using them before I bought them.

 

[integerspin]

I gather inkjet is no good, even with archival inks[whatever they are]; laser or ALPS printers are OK.
All papers seem to be different, some are pretty rubbish, the cheapest seemed to be
the best to me! I haven't tried the laser version of the one linked to, I purposely didn't buy it as I saw posts about it melting to the fuser in colour Laserjets? That paper is cheaper if I bought it from a local modelshop.

I found I had to use a decal setting solution, Humbrol Decalfix, Microscale/Microset, the Humbrol seemed to work best, though the modelers recon it's crap and you need microxxx.

They are pretty fragile, you need to get a good clear on top of them.

There is a long[hundreds of pages I think] post on pinkbike about painting your own bike, one of the blokes[who has posted a lot] uses waterslide for finedetail.