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WZ2
  • Member since
    November 2009
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Posted by WZ2 on Friday, June 12, 2015 7:07 PM

Guys,

What does it mean for a decal to be "off register?"

Thanks! Chris

  • Member since
    May 2013
  • From: Indiana, USA
Posted by Greg on Friday, June 12, 2015 7:22 PM

HI Chris,

This brief Wikopedia explains the basics quickly. Not specific to decals, but same principle.

Sorry, I"m not a huge fan of Wikopedia but it gets the job done in this case.

  • Member since
    September 2012
Posted by GMorrison on Friday, June 12, 2015 11:01 PM

So for instance, you can get an RAF roundrel where the red center dot is not in the middle of the white circle.

 Modeling is an excuse to buy books.

 

  • Member since
    January 2015
Posted by BrandonD on Saturday, June 13, 2015 3:51 AM

Basically means that if you think about zeroing the colors as you would zero a sight on a rifle, they aren't all hitting the same spot. That's what the little crosshairs on some decal sheets shows. (And fabric and paper print proofs).

-BD-

  • Member since
    November 2009
  • From: Twin Cities of Minnesota
Posted by Don Stauffer on Saturday, June 13, 2015 9:17 AM

Decals are printed by a silkscreen process which is essentially a stenciling technique.  There is one screen or stencil for each color ink.  The process is done one color at a time.  There are pins that hold each screen or stencil in register, but sometimes the screen does not get on the pin properly, or the holes have become worn so the pin does not hold a screen for a given color(s) properly in register.

This is similar to magazines or color pictures in the paper, where sometimes all the pictures on a page have color ghosts because something happened when printing that color.  Printing presses, like silkscreening, print one color at a time.

Don Stauffer in Minnesota

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