Mud Hole sells decal material that I have used with gel pens. They also state in can be used with Dry Ink printers. Besides Alps - does anyone use one of these or know where to get one? Not afraid of paying for one, as I know they may be pricey.

Thanks,
Marc

When I talked to them about this it turned out that it used the wax inks. There are several on the market but Alps is the most affordable. Getting ink for it might be a problem depending on where you live, and it too is relatively - well, pricey.

Another do-it-yourszelf solution is the Testor's decal kit (yes, the model paint and glue people) that can be used with an inkjet printer. Testor's supplies the decal material in several fors - clear, white, etc. This kit really works.

Uncle Russ
Calico Creek Rods

Marc - I have been using this system. Sometimes it works great, sometimes it's a pain. You can look at some of my rods in my member gallery.

Chuck

[www.pulsarprofx.com]

Marc Xerox has a few that are called color solid printers thing is I don't think they print in white nor metallics something to look at and there are some super high priced printers that will do almost anything but the cost and size puts them out of contention unless printing is your business
John

Something else to consider as a possible source for transfer printing... There is a new printer soon to be released called Zink (Zero Ink) [www.zink.com] . The initial offering will be a printer built into the body of a digital camera to print small pictures on the spot but there will also be desktop and portable versions available at very reasonable prices, conparable to standard deskjets. This zero ink system uses a new, one pass, version of thermoautochrome printing where the color crystals are embedded in the paper so there's no surface ink, toner, or wax that may cause problems with coatings. The old thermoautochrome printers do have transparency film available so I'm guessing that this one will also. The paper will cost a lot more than standard bond paper but should still be quite reasonable considering there will be no cost for ink or toner. The older thermoautochrome paper may even be compatible with the new printers so you could get an idea for what the paper would cost by googling it.

Not so fast:
"The key is the patented ZINKTM Paper, an advanced composite material with
patented yellow, magenta, and cyan dye crystals embedded inside and a protective
polymer overcoat outside."

What that tells me is that they do not have white in their pallete. They rely on the paper to provide white. Interesting technology, but it isn't going to fill the void, anymore than existing sublimation photo printers do.