That is strange, I'm not getting those artifacts when I print. Here is one full size and one double size. I have scaled the lineweights in the double size version
Yup Marty that looks GOOD ! The double size drawing wins the prize in my eyes.... So the next step is ink I guess.. It looks like a gold foil/gold leaf ink IMHO.Not so much a metallic me thinks.All the gold decals I have seen, seem like a gold foil to me..Do you guys concur, or do you think it is metallic ?Originally Posted by martyh45
I vote for gold foil
I am working on getting this into 2 layer vector format for the printer. anybody have the ability to verify eps or svg file types? I have a full size multi decal sheet ready to check.
Looks good buddy. : ) If I had your file I could try to see if it will open in Illustrator? and maybe we can save it into a regular file type that most printers can deal with.
Last edited by cradeldorf; July 4th, 2012 at 10:35 PM.
Yep I think the top one looks gold leafy or a nice bright gold ink, the bottom one looks like possibly silver or a dark dirty gold ink. Also It almost looks like they might have printed them in reverse on the back side of the clear sheet they come on so it protects them better.
I found this an interesting read.
http://www.narhams.org/library/tech/016-DecalMaking.pdf
Last edited by cradeldorf; July 4th, 2012 at 10:17 PM.
cradeldorf you've got mail. The file is about 1MB hopefully no problem for your server.
Rain cooled things down a little so I wandered to the barn. Second time was charmed I DID find what I was looking for. An Alps, only an MD1000 though. I've joined the two Yahoo groups, Alps and Alps decal.
Man this thing is filthy. Not used in ten years, last two stored in a dry barn, All the ribbons were out of sockets,
But this thing fired right up, and pulled a surprisingly good test print. Not sure if all the ribbons are in correct place.
Silly thing had SCSI interface for Mac we had, But after an hour on the net found it pops off and parallel underneath.
All this takes an old guy several hours to fumble through. But maybe I or someone can see what kinda copy we can get from it. May be an option. Somebody on CL locally is selling Alps gold foil for ten bucks, maybe can get my brother or the redhead to chase him down. In this heat not an option for me.
**Alps Printer Cartridges**
Your neighbors called. They like your music.
OG, you can say that again!
Weird...board took a long time the two posts?
Your neighbors called. They like your music.
OG that is really cool. Do you know what type of decal paper they take? I have some laserjet waterslide I can send for testing. I found a free open source vector graphics program the other day “Inkscape” If you get that running on your machine you might be able to print from it to the alps.
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