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I am learning how to make my own decals. I bought a Testor's Custom Decal System. It had a can of bonder, 2 sheets of roughly 5"x8" decal paper and a small cd rom for program installation. I hurried home thinking this is the ticket for my "Falls Valley Grain" industry and Private cars on the railroad. Upon installing the program under XP Pro, I discovered several templates with it's own artwork premade. The program did not have any utility for making your own projects. Undaunted, I closed the program, opened paint and started my project. I placed 10 "Falls Valley Grain" in Centry Gothic Font at 24 points in size. The resulting yellow image on a white background took up a little over half of the standard "Paint" project area with the application full screened. I set the printer (Epson Sylus 740) Inkjet to 1- Photo Quality Injet Paper, 2- Best Quality, 3- Portrait and 4- Paper size 5x8" index card via the control panel in my XP Pro. I set the glossy paper into the printer short side down (Considered the top of the paper) and used my OFFICE picture viewer to print the image. I am editing this with a CAUTION that ONLY inkjet printers can be used for this project. With this partictular product. The result was very nice. About what I had hoped for. I was wanting rather large decals that worked out to a HO scale 6 foot by 30 feet long. I went outside and sprayed the decal bonder once the printer ink has dried. I made about 10 passes rather fast "Dry bombing" the paper. They did say "Lightly coat" and needs 2 hours to dry. In the morning, I will go ahead and transfer these to the cars themselves. I spend I think about 6.50 for the entire box of two decal paper and one can of testor's bonder and the program etc. The program to me is worthless. So the decal paper may come in handy for future projects that suddenly materialized in the hopes and dreams for my own decals with out the tedious letter by letter placement. After I transfer the decals I will need to let these dry for about 12 hours. I dont know how they are going to come out. But will let you know. Lee
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