I’ve had good success printing my own DIY decals with my inkjet printer, as long as they aren’t white, but I’m wondering if its possible to create self-adhesive, removeable paint masks? Avery makes some printable, removeable address labels, and I’ve heard of but never seen a profuct called Frisket film, and I don’t know images can be printed on it. Any suggestions will be appreciated!
Bob
When I was using frisket film, I used to just reverse the image I was wanting to make a mask with and print it on the backing paper. I no longer use frisket film though because it really isn’t flexible enough, and actually doesn’t conform to parts all that well. What I use now is Tamiya Masking Sticker Sheets with a 1mm grid printed on them. Tried to print a masking pattern on them, but the surface doesn’t hold ink or toner very well. Hadn’t thought of it until making this post, but I imagine my old trick of reversing the image and printing it on the backing paper would work just fine. I use those masking sticker sheets for everything now, since they’re so much better than any kind of masking tape.
I’ve used Frisket and Tamiya masking sheets cut with a Brother Scan-n-cut. I found it to be more trouble than it’s worth for several reasons:
First, it takes a lot of time to set up the pattern correctly. Trial and error getting the curves just right. It might be worth it if you were doing several of the same kit.
Second, the Scan-n-cut doesn’t make the edges quite as clean as the Tamiya narrow masking tapes.
I’ve gone back to masking canopy edges with tape working my way from 1mm on the edges up to larger pieces over the large parts.
MJY65 wrote the follow
MJY65 wrote: I’ve used Frisket and Tamiya masking sheets.
I have some of the Tamiya masking sheets. I’ll try them in my printer. How abut the Frisket sheets? Will they take printer toner?
Bob
Well…I tried [smh] [whstl]
And you get a gold star for trying! [*]
I should have explained that the areas I need to mask are flat, or only slightly curved, with no complex curves. But maybe the Friskit materiel ism’t even flexible enough or sticky enough for that.
Bob
I answered your original question about printing on either material, but I guess that was a wasted effort. Oh well.
My apologies for offending you. That certainly wasn’t my intention. Obviously I was confused by the two materials — Frisket film and the Tamiya sheets. Are you saying that you now regularly make masks by printing, reverse images, on the backing film of the Tamiya sheets? Tamiya masking tape is impressive. Now do I understand? If so, you have given me a good course to steer.
Regards,
Bob