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Gold is a difficult color to get to work properly on a decal. On commercially-produced decals, you will probably note that the gold color is particularly thick. One way you can get this to work better is to literally run the decal sheet through the printer twice, doubling the amount of ink on the surface. You can only do this if your paper alignment is very, very tight; otherwise, you'll end up with a double-image. <br /> <br />Another thing you can do, if you have a very steady hand, is to print it out once, then use gold or yellow ink and a very fine tip nib to ink over the decal again (a lot easier to do with the printout there than to do from scratch).
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