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Re: Silkscreening parts
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lugnet.parts.mod
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Thu, 5 Aug 2004 19:15:19 GMT
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In lugnet.parts.mod, Bruce Schlickbernd wrote:
> In lugnet.parts.mod, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> > In lugnet.parts.mod, Mike Rayhawk wrote:
> > > 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
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> > 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.
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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 don't see the point in silk-screening to an intermediary medium
> (decal, paper, film, etc.) when that can be done easier through existing
> techniques (mostly Paintshop and an ink-jet printer).
Hi Bruce... I was focused on the second sentence of those I left.
In the second sentence he said "custom decals, running label paper" which is
what confused me in his usage. Decals go on decal paper not sticker paper.
Stickers go on label (sticker) paper not decal paper.
A lot of people (incorrectly, in my view) call stickers decals though, so I
wanted clarification on THAT. I know what silkscreening is, I've hung out with
J2 enough by now that it's pretty much imprinted.
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| (...) Ah, I see. Terminology is sloppy - I use glossy photo paper myself, and Elmer's Washable Glue Stick (and colored pencils so that the edges aren't glaringly white). So I don't use decal, film, or glue-backed paper in actuality, though I call (...) (20 years ago, 5-Aug-04, to lugnet.parts.mod)
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| (...) Whoa! I forgot what kind of technical crowd I was talking to. By 'custom decals' I meant 'faked element prints' (so, actually even less correct than if I had meant 'stickers'). By 'label paper' I actually did mean stickers though. I haven't (...) (20 years ago, 5-Aug-04, to lugnet.parts.mod)
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| | 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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