Decal Printing - Clear Area Question

Danger wrote:

Thanks guys.... Now I just need to figure out how to set the backgraound as transparent.

Set your background to 100% white. Your printer won't print anything in these areas. Your clear decal film will remain clear in these white areas.

Thanks guys. I am going to print on both the clear and white paper. I'll open up the white area to allow bleed under the other colours.

Now I just need to figure out how to set the backgraound as transparent.

You can do that but it can be tedious. No matter how you blend, mix, overlay the color in your printer cartridge, you'll never get white. Print on white paper and leave the area you want white clear (absent of color). If the paper is translucent, you might have to put down a white base color on the model where the decal rests.

You can create your artwork and send it to someone like Draw Decal, they have the ability to print one sheet or hundreds.

You can print the decals twice, once on white, trim out area that you want - as it seems to be in the middle, you have some leeway. Then print the full decal on clear. Apply the white first, then the clear on top of the white.

So what you are telling me is what I want to do is not possible unless I have an Alps printer.

Here is a picture of the decal. I am changing the colours to reflect the stripping on a blue car. The orange will be changed to dark blue, the red to black and the yellow to white.

White paper will make the stripe white but also all the background will be white needing to be trimed perfectly. It won't matter what the background is as the paper is white.

Is there any company that can create a decal from a jpg in less than a month? Any idea of pricing?

Thanks

 

Since your printer can not print white, you're going to have to print on white paper. The only printer that can print white are Alps printers or those professional ones used by the decal printing companies.

You need to set the page up as a transparent background, otherwise the area between the decals will not be clear and free of color.