I was on the MRC website and there was an ad for Evan Designs decal paper along with a video slide show of how they use this particular paper to print white letter and image decals. There was no mention of the paper on their linked website- what is the story? This was a great alternative to Alps printing, supposedly! Cedarwoodron
Evan Design decal paper doesn’t print white, as near as I know. I have a couple sheets of it that came with the Evan Design Windows program, for printing window curtains for model buildings. It is clear, and the only colors you can get are whatever your ink jet printer can produce.
MRC may have a very expensive commercial printer that can print in white.
There is a graphic arts company here in Sierra Vista that can print decals in any color we want, and they can even reproduce railroad logos if we have a boxcar or something that they can photograph. But their printer is a laser used for commercial business signs and not something the average modeler could afford.
The product was described as being debuted at the 2011 National Train Show in Sacramento, CA that year, as per the article on the Model Railroad Craftsman website “extras” subheading. This was only 2years ago! Either it didn’t work as advertised or is just hard to get. Walthers also lists it in their online catalog, but with a note that it is currently “unavailable”, and the item was “Hobbycal decal paper” in the MRC article, introduced by Evans. Another “El Dorado” of white font printing??? Cedarwoodron
I am not sure about the Evan Design product, but usually “white” lettering is done on white inkjet decal paper. The white letters or graphics you select in the design are an area of no printing so the white backing on the decal paper shows through. This is an instruction from the Evan Design site that explains how to do it using MS Word
http://www.modeltrainsoftware.com/decalwhitetext.html
This is the white decal paper I get fron Micro Mark
http://www.micromark.com/white-decal-paper-for-ink-jet-and-laser-printers-and-copiers-5-sheets,7945.html
This is the 5 sheet package, they also sell a 25 pack which is a lot of decal paper.
White decal paper is also good for printing light colors that tend to be semi-transparent against a dark packground. The white background shields the color from the substrate color