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Old 17th Oct 2017, 1:35 pm   #9
cjwhoishe
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Default Re: Printing White Lettering on Water-Slide transfers ('decals')

Hi David G4EBT
In the vintage audio forum I posed a question of how to reproduce the LEAK logo on a re-painted TL12 plus chassis. I had looked at clear waterslide transfers and fell foul of wanting to print very close to white.
Your concept here is interesting but have you had any success merging the background you have added with the underlying base colour of what you 'sticking' it on.
I am currently getting some of both the clear and the white backed waterslide papers and going to do some experiments.
I think I have 2 options:-
1. Paint a white area on the chassis and then use the clear paper with the logo clear and background the same as the chassis.
2. Use the white paper withe the background the same as the chassis, as you say here.
Both present the problem of trying to merge the printed information with the base colour of the chassis.
With the clear paper I can though thin out the background colour so more of the underlying chassis colour comes through and the merge is not harsh.
With your more experience with these transfers what do you think?
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