Making Proprietary Decals - Which ALPS Printer?

[tomustang]

Thanks for you advice! I knew the APLS printers were no longer in production but I was under the impression from reading posts on the Yahoo APLS Decal Group site that cartridges of white ink (not ribbons - ribbons were probably for the dot-matrix printers) were no problem to acquire. :?: :?

I think these were thermal printers and not "ink jet", and in fact used ribbons. I certainly may be wrong, though. If there is a demand, I am sure someone else will come out with a printer or ink that prints white, but my guess is with such a limited market it will be expensive. I certainly understand wanting to have more personal control over the process, though. A few years ago I looked a little bit into finding an ALPS, but quickly decided it wasn't worth my limited funds. There is no harm in doing your own investigation, though. I figured for me the only way it would be worth it is if I could find one cheap (such as at yard sale). It just seemed to high of a price to pay for a printer with a big unknown of future ink availability.

Kevin, that's what the main problem with the alps printer was. It didn't have a market for white ink thus why they discontinued them, they're wasn't any money in them and probably will not be in the future for white ink based prints. The current market is for modeling (trains planes and military decals) but still not enough to make a profit