Originally Posted by Miniflyer

Raymac, i think you overread a very important point, the dye sub mode will NOT work, no matter what type of printer you are using. The decal films do not properly accept the dye sub inks, and Alps even warns that this can seriously damage the printer head. Forget dyesub, it sounds really nice in theory but will not work FOR DECALS (it's perfect on paper!). Believe me, i've tried out most of this stuff because i've done so many decalsets already.....

You need the standard solid ink ribbons as used in Alps, Citizen and Oki, and you need a printer which has overlay-functions. Your kodak printers do not offer these ribbons, you cannot make usable decals. Save that investment....

And of course you "can" print jpgs. However they usually have a slightly dithered background, and the printer will be very very happy to print that right on the film and make it visible on the plane. Also with jpg you will always get an all-white background (or whatever color the background is), loosing the advantage of opaque colors on a transparent underground.
With vector images you can use the overlay-functions to make only those areas white(or colored) that need to be, because it has clear color/no color definitions for the entire document, and not the pixel information for each and every spot on the graphic (there is even color information for the "no color" areas, thus making the printer print color on there.....to put it in simple words).
(There are a few conversion programs for pixel-to-vector, but they all require serious reworking of your graphics. For a full decal sheet i am busy for about 1-2 weeks on the PC!)

So buying such a printer for non-vector graphics is, simply said, a pure waste of money. You'll be a lot happier staying with your inkjet printed decals and cutting white masks for the areas neccessary, or printing with your inkjet on white carrier medias.

Best regards
Hank