[Boatanchors] Water Slide Decal Questions

[Lee Craner]

Scott,
I use water slide decals on all of my HB projects.  Attached is a HB antenna tuner that I built back in 2006 to match my KWM-380.  The front panel is one large color decal.  After almost 20 years it still looks great.
As to ink jet vs laser printing, I prefer laser.
73Lee WB6SSW
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    On Tuesday, July 22, 2025 at 02:36:02 PM PDT, Scott Freeberg WA9WFA via Boatanchors <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net> wrote:   

 I am the process of putting my homebuilt HB-67 double conversion
superheterodyne receiver (1967-1969 ARRL Handbook) into an old NOS Wyco
cabinet.  I'm just starting to read about water slide decals where labeling
is printed on the decal, soaked in water for 30 seconds, slide off the paper
and onto the project.  Has anyone here used that process before?  I'd sure
like to hear your thoughts, comments, advice.  Are you printing with a laser
printer or inkjet?  Most papers seem to be laser.  Color or B/W?

 

I have an old version of Corel Draw that I last used maybe 15 years ago.
I'm thinking that program may be good enough for creating the labels. 

 

Thanks.  73, Scott WA9WFA 

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