Hi all, do any of the sponsors do full colour rod decals? Also, who does one colour silver and gold decals? I could provide a jpeg of the image needed.

Thanks,
Mark

Mark Janeck
Custom Rods, Campbellville, Ontario

Hi Mark,
I may have a place that I have been starting to do business with this last year that may be able to do what you are wanting to do?
Shoot me an email at neal@nealsfishingtackle.com

Good Wraps,
Neal Cissel

Decal Connection does Silver or Gold decals. The first batch I ordered I got gold, the next will be silver.

I've been very satisfied with Decal Connection's metallic silver and gold decals. The quality of their printout is dependant on the quality of the file you send to them. Usually I'm just printing names and inscriptions, so I send a Microsoft Word file with the inscription in the font that I want and sized how I want it sized. They print and send them right out.

I haven't been very pleased with full color decals on waterslide paper, not DC's fault...primarily I don't like that you have to cut them out of a solid background... so you better have a simple outline to your decal.

Erik

What Mark has asked about is FULL COLOR decals. Full color printing creates lifelike images such as the photographs printed in RodMaker. It can be done with more than four colors for added punch, such as metallics; but the minimum is four colors. It is a far more specialized process than printing solid colors side by side or over one another. The original image has to be separated into tiny dots and the colors divided by percentage among four colors of ink that, when carefully lined up next to one another, will recreate the illusion of a full color image. If you take a magnifying glass to any printed photograph you will see precisely how the dots of color are placed to create this illusion. As you back off from the image it becomes clear. This truly is an illusion that convinces us to accept the image as a fair representation of life. It is a costly process especially when done for small orders...and that's not counting the special demands for printing on decal material. I look forward to the continuing sophistication of home computers to make this available to all of us on our desktops. It should not take long to happen.