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A little off topic, but any advice on scanning decal sheets? I can’t seem to get a nice vivid color either on screen or on printed copies. Yet it copies pictures just fine. A fairly new HP C5280 all in one gizmo. I’m wondering if the shiny film on the decals causes issues?

Bongo Fury wrote:A little off topic, but any advice on scanning decal sheets? I can’t seem to get a nice vivid color either on screen or on printed copies. Yet it copies pictures just fine. A fairly new HP C5280 all in one gizmo. I’m wondering if the shiny film on the decals causes issues?

I'm not sure what the problem is, but I get the same results. The pic of the xx stickers above has nice vivid colors, it was taken with a digital camera.
the pic below is from an old flatbed scanner and it looks all washed out and faded.
I scanned at 1400dpi, so I have a huge hi-res file but the colors are off.

See but that'll work for me, cause I can just paint them over with some pink highlighter and then put some clear film on it, no one will know the difference when I'm running it, and when I'm in the pits, I'll just hide the body away

Imma try it tonight

I can get you a higher resolution version this evening if you PM me with your email address.

any decals being produced yet?

I contacted a hobby shock in the UK that have them in stock, but they won't ship to the U.S. then I had someone from the UK willing to buy them for me and ship them, so I contacted the hobby shock again regarding the parts numbers, and they never got back to me. awesome business