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Re: Silkscreening parts
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lugnet.parts.mod
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Thu, 5 Aug 2004 23:15:08 GMT
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In lugnet.parts.mod, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> In lugnet.parts.mod, Mike Rayhawk wrote:
> > 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.
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 had much luck with 'true' decals, since they only seem to be good for
white or very light elements - at least until we find a printer that uses opaque
pigments instead of transparent dyes.
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| (...) 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 (...) (20 years ago, 5-Aug-04, to lugnet.parts.mod)
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