[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Putting Color Toner Images on DARK or BLACK Target Surfaces![/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=-1]Up to this point, we've been showing you color images that have been put on light colored surfaces (eg. white cardboard and a soft yellow as shown on the bottle above) however, this is cheating a little bit. Color toner by its very nature must be printed on white paper in order to see vibrant color. If you were to put a yellow piece of paper into a color printer and print a bright RED square, your result will be a very stunning ORANGE! If you will take a peek again at the two images above where we are applying the adhesive and then then applying the image to the decorative yellow toned bottle, notice the shade difference in the green leaves of the graphic before and after the mage is transferred to the bottle. There is a definite color shift.[/SIZE][/FONT]
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The reason is, the 4 toner colors (cyan, magenta, yellow and black) are EXTREMELY thin. Because of this, they have no 'body'. They are so thin in fact, that they don't even reflect light directly. Light actually passes mostly between the toner particles, hits the white background (eg. a white piece of paper that the image was printed on) and then as it is reflecting off the white paper, it's tinted by the toner color and eventually makes it back to your eye. It's such a neat trick that you'd swear you are seeing pure vibrant color... but you aren't! So, if you need to put an image on a dark or even black background, how do we get vibrant color? Simple... put the same white foil (WhiteTRF) that we've used before to turn black toner white UNDER the toner.One of the more advanced DecalPRO techniques involves putting a full color image on target surface that is not white. In the picture above, we made two identical columns of colored text. The right side is plain toner on the black background, however, the left side has had the "trick" performedIf the background is black as shown above, you can see just how much [/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=-1]So how do you get access to the bottom of the toner you ask? ... print it in "mirror"! In the DecalPRO starter kit there is a set of full color graphics, half of which have already been printed in reverse so you can practice this technique right out of the box. (Actually, you need to practice the simpler techiques first, but after gaining proficiency, then you'd tackle this technique). As shown above, you see two identical columns of color "words". The right side shows how transparent color toner actually is. The left column was printed in reverse so we could apply the white foil UNDER the toner.[/SIZE][/FONT]
I used to have tons of fonts downloaded, i'll have to look for that folder.....
well, i can guess what i'll be doing at 3 am..... 
