moonpenny Posted April 20, 2020 Report Share Posted April 20, 2020 Good Morning, I have been looking for a Vendor(s) who carries Decal Waterslide Paper for creating our own designs on decals. I purchased a used HP Laser Printer for this purpose but still cannot locate the decal paper. Any suggestions? Thanks for "listening". Diane Horton, Maine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick White Posted April 20, 2020 Report Share Posted April 20, 2020 Diane, Finding a vendor who carries a particular product and identifying the particular product are 2 different challenges. For better or worse, there is only one remaining producer of decal paper in the US market for hobby potters to make monochrome laser-printed decals for ceramic use. That company is Fired On Images. When I say for better or worse, this company has gone on a legal rampage in recent years claiming that their process for laser printing images on decal paper with a high iron toner (HP and Canon being the main printers having such a toner) with the end purpose of ceramic decoration is their proprietary trademarked/patented process, and all the other producers of waterslide decal paper have been served with cease-and-desist letters to remove any promotion or mention that their competing decal paper could be used for transferring laser-printed images to a ceramic surface. So that's where we are now. Fired On Images is the only product you will find specifically "allowed" to be used for laser ceramic decals. Now you just need to google-fu vendors who sell it. All that said, there are other waterslide decal papers on the market. They just don't mention ceramic use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liambesaw Posted April 20, 2020 Report Share Posted April 20, 2020 There are tons of results on Amazon if you just search for waterslide decal paper, you just won't find any that specify use with firing an image onto ceramic because of the whole "patent" issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chelle87 Posted April 21, 2020 Report Share Posted April 21, 2020 highwater has it but it seems expensive to me for paper but i could be wrong. dont mean to hijack the post but is there anyway to print decals in color? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rae Reich Posted April 24, 2020 Report Share Posted April 24, 2020 I made some years ago by silkscreening china paints onto the paper. Messy process grinding and mixing the china paints for the screens because - amateur. There are ^018 enamels (or there were) that come in tubes like oil paints. They are easy to work with and you can paint directly onto the transfer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Callie Beller Diesel Posted April 25, 2020 Report Share Posted April 25, 2020 There are a number of posts involving silkscreening underglazes to make decals that way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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