Making my own decals

Tried this for the first time recently, and it seemed to work great.
I used an HP 245 photosmart printer. Makes great 4x6 prints from my digital camera so I thought I would give it a try. Bought the Testors decal paper I found in the small hobby section of my local superstore. Scanned the images with a HP 750xi printer scanner and copier. 300 DPI for most decals seems to be a good resolution. I saved my projects as a bit map file in paint brush so I could adjust the color later. I then transferred the file to a "MWorks" program because it has a built in scale which comes close to the same size as the ruler I used to measure the decals I was replacing from the original kit. I then fixed the colors and exact features in Paint Brush. Paint brush seems to work well and I like the zoom feature to adjust all the pixels and colors. I suppose you could also use photoshop if you have it. I then cut the Testors paper in to the proper size for the printer by using some of the prebought photo paper for the machine from HP. If you use the sharpest setting on the printer the colors and definition seems to be good for most scales. Let the ink dry on the paper for at least 2 to 3 hours in dry non humid conditions. I then use a coat of dullcoat on the sheet. The colors ran on the sheet ever so slightly when I picked it up, so I suggest leaving it laying flat till the top coat drys.
Too apply I used the same method as always but used liberal amounts of Microscale decal solvant because the decals are just a tad thicker than kit decals. Thicker is definately better for bigger decals so I'm not complaining about that. The results are below. Also a Pic of the project the homemade decals are going on.