Charles,
So at this point we'd have to find some firm that owns one of those
machines and supply the artwork to them and you could be in the decal
business.
The description of the Okidata unit talks about fabric transfers, so T
shirt places, and companies that supply short runs of any kind of flat
artwork, could be owners of that kind of unit. If they are in the
business the print, anybody with the artwork could print a few copies
or hundreds. I suggest it would be more expensive than a home use
machine, but you don't have to buy technology that will be outdated and
need upkeep either.
Bob Werre
On 5/1/13 6:11 PM, Charles Weston wrote:
There's always this baby:
http://www.okidata.com/procolor/pro920wt
Charles Weston
San Antonio
--- On *Wed, 5/1/13, Bob Werre /<[email protected]>/* wrote:
From: Bob Werre <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} Re: a tale of 2 Bills and 1 Jerry
To: [email protected]
Date: Wednesday, May 1, 2013, 9:46 AM
Rhett,
That was pretty much my thoughts except that decal printers are
pretty rare, so with present technology unlikely to be in local
hobby shops. However, other hobbies need decals so it's likely a
major city would have the volume to make such a venture possible.
The only printer that printed white was common to our hobby was
the long-gone Alps. I remember seeing them in local consumer
computer super stores a few years ago. One would have to assume
that they left the market because the normal user didn't need that
feature. Hence the need for a larger commercial unit based on
volume. All one needs is one of those printers and Bill Lane's
200 hours of artwork!
And of course, this brings up the main issue with all these
semi-defunct companies. Those pieces of artwork maybe never turn
a dime for the owners or grace my freight cars!
Bob Werre
PhotoTraxx
--- In [email protected]
</mc/compose?to=S-Scale%40yahoogroups.com>, Bob Werre <bob@...>
</mc/compose?to=bob@...> wrote:
> The solution for all this is for the decal people to simply
sell "one
> time or multiple use rights" to their artwork.
I've often wondered why Microscale wouldn't do something like
this! How great would it be to go into a hobby shop, walk up to a
computer, select the sheets (or portions of sheets) that you
want, hit print and walk out with fresh decals?! The price you'd
pay would be based on the number of artwork sheets you accessed,
the print area and the number of colors. Microscale could provide
the hobby shops with the printers and decal sheets, the hobby
shop doesn't have to inventory the decals (saves space and saves
taxes on stuff that doesn't sell), and the hobbyist gets fresh
decals on demand.
