Decal Pro Pirep - Page 3

William Slaughter · #21 02-06-2012, 06:51 PM

Thanks, guys. I can't wait to see how the main panel is going to turn out. Hopefully I can be ready for that in a few weeks.

William Slaughter · #22 02-13-2012, 04:23 PM

Here's the Fuel Pump label. This is all drawn and applied as one piece. Getting fairly routine now.

gordodavis · #23 02-13-2012, 07:33 PM

William, that looks great!! I guess I'm about ready to pull the trigger and order Decal Pro system. Did you buy the laminator from Decal Pro?

William Slaughter · #24 02-14-2012, 06:59 AM

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Originally Posted by gordodavis

William, that looks great!! I guess I'm about ready to pull the trigger and order Decal Pro system. Did you buy the laminator from Decal Pro?

Yes, I bought everything from DecalProFX, except the heat gun, which I already had. I've just re-ordered a full sheet of white and of black, having pretty much used up the sample pieces included in the kit. The other side of the equation, of course, is how to generate the images. MS Excel works reasonably well, but I get better results with my CAD package. In the case of the fuel pump label, I included a "bullseye" circle on the image that I used to line up over the hole. A drawing package would be ideal for even fancier and/or multi-color stuff, but I do not have one. Initially I spent pretty much an entire weekend getting up to speed, but feel reasonably comfortable with the process now. I spent about an hour all up on the fuel pump label, but that includes drawing the basic image, several iterative adjustments to the drawing, then the creation and application of the transfer image. After the application of the image, I set the workpiece aside for a couple of days to let the transfer fully setup, and of course you want to target area to be clean, clean, clean.

Sid Lambert · #25 02-14-2012, 07:22 AM

That's how a panel label should look! P-touch can't look that good.

TS Flightlines · #26 02-14-2012, 09:31 AM

That looks really good Bill-------I'll make a note of that system---when the time comes.
Tom

William Slaughter · #27 02-14-2012, 11:05 AM

That fuel pump label also illustrates another feature - size. You can make labels or markings or groups thereof up to anything that will fit on an 8-1/2 x 11 sheet. I'm still trying to think up a use for all of the beautiful metallic colors and iridescent finishes available.

If anyone knows of a reasonably priced drawing/illustration software, please let me know - then I could make multi-colored transfers.