[Ham-Computers] RE: How do you print white letters?

[WA5CAB at cs.com]

Actually, I rather expected that was what he wanted to do (make decals).  
I'll give you my answer against dry transfer stuff and in favor of easy to 
produce decals.  (1) you are stuck with the few fonts and pitches available.  (2) 
it's virtually impossible to get them straight enough that anyone with good 
vision can't tell how they were done.  (3) they only work passably well on flat 
surfaces.  If the part is cylindrical the difficulty of getting acceptable 
results increases exponentially.  (4) they are extremely time intensive.  If you 
have a lot of parts to do you'll spend a lifetime doing it.

In a message dated 2/19/2008 8:09:56 PM Central Standard Time, 
ka4inm at tampabay.rr.com writes: 
> >The water-slide decal paper is available from several sources so I guess 
> >I could buy the paper and go to a print shop and have them print what I 
> >need on the special paper. . . .
> 
> >If I could find a white-printing printer for <$200 I might consider 
> >buying one.
> 
>    Why don't you use rub off labels that you have to over coat with clear
> sealer?  We didn't know this is what you were trying to do originally.

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