Selfprinting decals

    • 77 posts
    May 20, 2016 5:38 AM EDT

    Hallo,
    has someone a work instruction how one can produce decals in black and white or in color yourself? (Laserprinter?) If so, where can I buy the decal-paper and so on.
    Thank you very much
    Edmund

    • 3 posts
    May 26, 2016 8:58 AM EDT
    Hi Edmund,
    I am having an online class about making your own decals. Send me an email if you would like more information.
    Annemargaretdinan@gmail.com
    You will get something in a week.
    • 15 posts
    July 4, 2016 10:10 PM EDT

    Hi Edmund,

    You can purchase decal paper from http:// www.beldecal.com- click on laser decal paper and select "clear." Not all laser printer works. Apple and HP are pretty reliable but you have to use just black and white. I don't know of any color sources to do this apart from working with a company for custom designs. Two companies I've ordered from who say they do custom (color) work are Stained Glass Elements (Netherlands) and Milestone Decal Art (NY). I have purchased both their pre-made color decals and they have been excellent. When you do your own black and white decals the end results fire to a sepia tone, not black. With self printed decals it's pretty similar to purchased ones except you need to let the ink set for about 5 minutes prior to the regular water soak and slide. Firing is around 1300-1350F for ~ 2 minutes at jewelry scale. Hope that helps!!!

    • 1 posts
    July 31, 2016 8:12 AM EDT
    Hi Edmund,
    I have used the beldecal.com decal paper Jewel mentions with both a black and white laser printer and a color laset printer. Firing times and temps for the color decals are much shorter and lower than black and white laser printed decals. The use of copper versus steel as the enamel surface introduces additional firing variances for color laser printed decals. My profile photo is an example of a laser printed color decal on enamel. I'll make a note to create and post a tutorial for color laser printed decals.
    This post was edited by Tonya Powell at August 1, 2016 1:43 PM EDT
    • 15 posts
    August 1, 2016 1:15 PM EDT

    Tonya, 

    Thank you for resonding- I was unaware that the color inks could be used as well- very interesting, and beautiful!

    • 77 posts
    August 18, 2016 5:28 AM EDT

    Hallo together,

    thank you all for your answers. I'm sorry answer so late, but I was a time offline

    Edmund

    • 59 posts
    August 19, 2016 1:05 PM EDT

    [blockquote]Edmund Massow said:

    Hallo together,

    thank you all for your answers. I'm sorry answer so late, but I was a time offline

    Edmund

    [/blockquote]

     

    wish you were here :-)

    Witaj Edmund szkoda że tak mało piszesz na forum. Brak mi Twoich porad.

    Jak zdrowie ?

    Pozdrawiam Leszek

    • 77 posts
    August 21, 2016 4:24 AM EDT

    Drodzy Lescek,
    Dziękujemy za zadanie pytania. U mnie wszystko dobrze. Nie jestem tak często online. Ale możesz dotrzeć do mnie pocztą E-Mail.
    Przyjazne pozdrowienia
    Edmund

    • 59 posts
    August 31, 2016 3:19 PM EDT

    [blockquote]Edmund Massow said:

    Drodzy Lescek,
    Dziękujemy za zadanie pytania. U mnie wszystko dobrze. Nie jestem tak często online. Ale możesz dotrzeć do mnie pocztą E-Mail.
    Przyjazne pozdrowienia
    Edmund

    [/blockquote]

     

    :-) pozdrawiam Edmund.