Waterslide Decal Paper(Clear)

This paper was perfect. I used it to add a personal message to a guitar I built for my granddaughter. Added the decal before clear coat.

I got a little VIA programmable macropad keypad to use for keyboard shortcuts. It comes with pretty lights and it works great and was pretty easy to program in VIA, but it came with white caps, which aren't really great for my aging memory to remember what I programmed the keys to do. Enter the Koala Waterslide Decal Paper for Laser Printer. Perfect solution! I made some themed keycaps from one of my favorite video games, printed them out from SVG format in Adobe Illustrator onto my cheap Brother laser printer, and stuck them on each keycap. They were easier to apply than I remember from my model-building days. When they dried and had a day or so to cure, I painted a couple coats of Liquitex matte varnish to protect them from being touched. Maybe not as sharp as a laser engraved keycap, but these have held up very well so far. (I'm sure a higher quality printer would also help.) All in all, a pretty fun little project for personalizing some gadgets!

Back in August, I picked up a bike that looked like it had survived years in the hands of a trined circus bear who treated it like a stolen rental. Every decal had vanished except one, and that lone survivor looked like someone tried to scrape it off with a butter knife and a grudge. Since nobody in their right mind restores a Takara and I’m clearly not operating in the realm of right mind, I went hunting for reproduction decals. They do not exist. But I can research, improvise, and occasionally problem solve, so I learned that inkjet water slide decals are a thing. Unfortunately, my inkjet printer decided to throw a tantrum after a firmware update and now refuses to print with aftermarket cartridges. Fine. Whatever. Enter this laser water slide paper. I had two big worries, smeared ink and the finished decals wrinkling up like the skin on my neck. Shockingly, neither happened. The ink stayed put, completely water fast, and the decals slid off the backing and onto the frame like bacon gliding across a nonstick skillet. Even the seat tube stripes, which I fully expected to behave like a rabid raccoon, went on perfectly like they knew they’d get in trouble if they didn’t. I even printed two full sheets because I was bracing for disaster, but I didn’t need the backups. Everything worked better than I could have hoped. Since I have several other sheets of this paper, I’m looking around the house for more things to put decals on.

Awesome product I used for Halloween for an artificial pumpkin.

Works great but - a little thick! Make sure you set your printer to heavy weight cardstock or the ink will not stick. Also, the decals are much thicker than the waterslide decals that come with model cars or planes, which is good because it won’t easily tear, but bad if you’re putting clear coat over. I used clear coat, and could tell it stopped sticking to the painted surface- so it’s just held on with the clearcoat.

Does work for all printers. Options are not available

I was searching for a decal film to customize a model I was working on. In the past, when I made my own decals I struggled with getting the right about of clear acrylic to spray over the image to get the thickness and adhesion right. This time I decided to try to find one that didn't need spray. I have access to a color laser copier, and most business supply stores have them. I saw this one was designed for laser printing and required no spray so I picked it up. My first print failed miserably, but when all else fails, read the directions. YOU MUST SET THE MACHINE FOR THICK PAPER BEFORE PRINTING. Once I did that it printed beautifully. When I applied it the decal it laid down like a dream. Very smooth without a lot of work and the adhesion was wonderful as well. Now there are a few things to remember. If you look at my photo you can see I laid this decal over a yellow background, and that some of the yellow shows through. This is transparent film, so it will only really work over a light background. They do have a white background product as well, but with that product you will have to trim the decal very closely or the white will appear on the finished product. Also, and this should be needless to say, unlike the decals that come with a model kit, this is a whole sheet of decal film and it will come off the paper as one sheet, not individual decals. You have to trim around the individual decals closely before applying. The instructions on the Amazon page for this product speak to baking the decal after application. Needless to say that would be disastrous to a plastic model and you should not do that, not would it be necessary. When I finished applying the decals, I sprayed it with a clear coat of lacquer and they laid perfectly. I found this product great for model building and I think you will too.

I purchased this to make decals for scale models, and it does not work well for that purpose. The film is comparatively very thick and stiff. It does not conform well to complex curves and does not respond to decal softeners/solvents. I used Tamiya Extra Thin Cement as a last resort to try and "melt" it into the surface with limited success. While this product did not meet my needs, it does have some good qualities. It came off the backing paper almost immediately after being wet, was easy to position with minimal fear of tearing, and adhered well to the surface. It is undoubtedly a good product for various applications, just not the one I for which I purchased it.

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The product seems to bubble on polymer clay which is why I purchased it. It was very sticky after baking so I sealed the pieces but the imagines that I transferred still lifted.

This waterslide paper is the best i've used, easy to replace, no tearing, no fading or distortion of print or decal. Worth the money

If the Sunnyscopa equivalent isn't available, get this one, it's a perfectly suitable substitute and comparable quality. It's not quite as glossy of a surface as the Sunnyscopa, which means that the toner will have less of a tendency to flake or 'dropout' if your laser printer is of an older technology (but you might get some random toner flakes if your printer isn't properly clean). If you have a modern laser printer using LED technology (which is most mid-to-high end printers these days) these two are interchangeable. Very good quality decal paper. Highly recommended. Edited to Add: The paper backing of this decal paper is thinner than the Sunnyscopa, but the urethane membrane (the actual substrate that makes the decal itself) is perhaps slightly thicker - which can make installing the decals easier without as much fuss with peeling, air bubbles and wrinkles as the Sunnyscopa. Conversely, if you want a decal that is thinner, requiring less clear coat to bury the edges, the Sunnyscopa would be your better option. We are talking about a few micrometres difference, though.