Earlier this year I decided to jump into the business of making decals for miniatures. I picked up an Oki C711WT as it uses white, cyan, magenta, and yellow toner. It works well and produces nice decals; however, it prints white last in the sequence and registration is an issue for making multiple passes. White needs to be under the color so that the colored portion of the graphic is opaque. That limited me to making two-part decals when white is required; white decal first, then color. That's a bother for me when making the files and it's a bother for those applying the decals. It does beat the the alternative of not being able to print white though.
I just received my much anticipated Oki C942 printer. It prints white first and then prints cyan, yellow, magenta, and black. Here's a picture of decals produced on the first test run of the C942. The model is an Armaments in Miniature, 1/200 scale, Ki-48 Lily. Decals include the tail marking and aircraft number, fuselage marking, and markings on top and bottom of the wings. These are one-piece decals.
I'm very happy with the results. The colors are opaque and the registration is good. Now I need to learn more about the printer's capabilities, convert my existing files, and add some more.
And now if you'll excuse me, I need to get back to my October Workbench which is creating 21 dioramas each consisting of a 54mm 3pdr gun and its six-man crew. Kevin
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