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Re: Silkscreening parts
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lugnet.parts.mod
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Thu, 5 Aug 2004 09:40:16 GMT
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In lugnet.parts.mod, Mike Rayhawk wrote:
> Hey nice, somebody made a new forum just in time for my question.
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> Has anybody tried silkscreening onto Lego parts? I've been doing a lot of
> custom decals lately, running label paper
Do you mean decals or stickers? I believe decals are printed on decal paper and
you use water to float them off their backing and transfer them while wet, while
stickers are printed on dry adhesive backed paper.
Tangentially, there is a printer called an ALPS that can print white ink but it
is an open question as to whether it can do so on sticker paper (which is
thicker than decal paper)
> through my inkjet, but I can't help
> but wonder if silkscreening wouldn't lead to a better finished result.
Interesting ides, but I wonder about the durability. Decals also are not as
durable in that they can flake off (my Steve Barile designed custom Chessie
locomotive is starting to lose some of its Chessie System markings due to
flaking from careless handling) unless you protect them somehow.
My interest here is that the MichLUG container we are going to trade is starting
to look like it needs white printing.
> Seems like it wouldn't be that hard to modify one of those $30
> mini-silkscreening kits to handle minifig torsos. I'm just wondering how well
> the print would stick afterward. Has anyone tried anything like this?
I'd be interested to hear about this as well. I wonder if J2 knows the answer,
he silkscreens things for a living.
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| (...) As a former scale model fan, I know that there a quite a few products out there for durably securing a decal to your model. The problem is that these solutions are semi-permanent and the piece(s) will alway have that decal on it. This is great (...) (20 years ago, 5-Aug-04, to lugnet.parts.mod)
| | | Re: Silkscreening parts
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| (...) Silk-screening is a process that will directly print a given design onto a given object (passing ink/dye/paint through a screen/number of screens). I presume Mike means printing directly on the torso after removing any previous design first. I (...) (20 years ago, 5-Aug-04, to lugnet.parts.mod)
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| Hey nice, somebody made a new forum just in time for my question. Has anybody tried silkscreening onto Lego parts? I've been doing a lot of custom decals lately, running label paper through my inkjet, but I can't help but wonder if silkscreening (...) (20 years ago, 5-Aug-04, to lugnet.parts.mod)
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