Lutz, FL
My inkjet printer died today. I’m considering replacing it with a color laser printer that I can make water slide decals with. What should I be looking for? Is 600dpi good enough?
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Once you pick a printer you may want to confirm compatibility with the paper manufacturer. My newish HP laser printer does not work well with the giant stack of laser water slide paper I’d been using successfully with my $50k office color laser printer that is no longer available to me ;-(
Gaborone
Halifax, NS
What's better -- laser or an archival inkjet? Higher end inkjet printers come with more inks than your standard C-M-Y-K laser printer so I assume their colour gamut is wider. Plus no risk of melting the waterslide paper inside your printer.
Like the Epson SureColor P700
Quoted from OLDPINGUY:Whats the recommended water slidepaper?
Different types for different printers. This one is ink jet paper:
https://www.amazon.com/Hayes-Paper-Waterslide-Water-Slide-Transparent/dp/B077TMFVL9
...and here is some laser waterslide paper:
https://www.amazon.com/Sunnyscopa-Waterslide-Urethane-Standard-sheets/dp/B07FSF69RM/ref=sr_1_5
Quoted from dr_nybble:What's better -- laser or an archival inkjet? Higher end inkjet printers come with more inks than your standard C-M-Y-K laser printer so I assume their colour gamut is wider. Plus no risk of melting the waterslide paper inside your printer.
Like the Epson SureColor P700
The Epson looks like a great printer for photo quality prints, but too expensive for my purpose.
Quoted from MrArt2u:Once you pick a printer you may want to confirm compatibility with the paper manufacturer. My newish HP laser printer does not work well with the giant stack of laser water slide paper I’d been using successfully with my $50k office color laser printer that is no longer available to me ;-(
I'm not sure what incompatibility you're having, but try setting the printer to thicker or maybe thinner paper in the print settings.
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