What Does YOUR DCL magnetic door sign look like? With other great tips for your sign

[fairyG]

The picture I used for that banner was the front of a DCL postcard I received and I scanned it into my computer.

All of your signs look great, I am looking forward to getting started on ours.I did not know what my daughter meant by decorating the doors; finding this site has really got me motivated.Our cruise is May 13th on the Magic.Can't wait.We will be celebrating our anniversary (early) and DH B'day.I want to try & incorporate this in my sign. All sugg.welcome.

PS--we are also from NJ and anticipating Florida in the very near future.

 

[Verandah Man]

All of your signs look great, I am looking forward to getting started on ours.I did not know what my daughter meant by decorating the doors; finding this site has really got me motivated.Our cruise is May 13th on the Magic.Can't wait.We will be celebrating our anniversary (early) and DH B'day.I want to try & incorporate this in my sign. All sugg.welcome.

PS--we are also from NJ and anticipating Florida in the very near future.

I sent you a PM. BTW, I also have family that will be going on the 5-13-06 cruise, and my sister has already requested some signs for her door.

 

[WDWLVR]

Okay, NOT at all happy with the magnetic paper I bought. I purchased it from http://www.decalpaper.com/magnetic-decalpaper.html. I put it in the printer, and I've selected heavyweight paper, photo paper, or premium photo paper options because I was having problems. It prints fine until the last 2 inches of the sheet. At that point, there are smears of color - the color is darkened and if there's a shape in that section, it looks funny. For example, Mickey's eye isn't the same shape as the other one, and it's not white - it's cloudy gray. Grrr. Anyone know how to fix this? I just wasted $40, and I'm responsible for making the door signs for our DIS group. I don't want to spend more money, but I want to get magnetic paper that works. The only paper I've used that HAs worked is Avery, and you pay $8 for 5 sheets. I bought 35 sheets for $40, so at that rate, I'd be paying $56 on top of the $40 I wasted. What a crock. Grrrr.

Not sure what printer you are using but I have one idea that might help. Is the paper drooping as it comes out of the printer (from the weight). That's what was happening to me when I was running off some magnets last night. Everything would print fine, but I had some smudges on the end ones. My DH saw the drooping and said that the front of the magnet was to heavy and making the end smudge. On our HP printer the tray that the paper comes out on tilts up. Once we did that the smudging went away. Hope that trick works for you.

 

[krdisneybound]

Okay, NOT at all happy with the magnetic paper I bought. I purchased it from http://www.decalpaper.com/magnetic-decalpaper.html. I put it in the printer, and I've selected heavyweight paper, photo paper, or premium photo paper options because I was having problems. It prints fine until the last 2 inches of the sheet. At that point, there are smears of color - the color is darkened and if there's a shape in that section, it looks funny. For example, Mickey's eye isn't the same shape as the other one, and it's not white - it's cloudy gray. Grrr. Anyone know how to fix this? I just wasted $40, and I'm responsible for making the door signs for our DIS group. I don't want to spend more money, but I want to get magnetic paper that works. The only paper I've used that HAs worked is Avery, and you pay $8 for 5 sheets. I bought 35 sheets for $40, so at that rate, I'd be paying $56 on top of the $40 I wasted. What a crock. Grrrr.

Good Morning, Jenny:

I know what you mean. I bought paper from them also and it worked for about 3 weeks and then it wouldn't go thru the printer. I went back to Avery (it is thinner) and then went back to the other sheets and a few went thru and then they stopped again. I think they are better for "heavier" copiers, really.

I's sorry you are having that problem. Is there a roller in your printer that you can take out and clean. One of my 4 printers printers have a roller and when I clean it sometimes, it gives a better reaction.

Have a good day

 

[daisy112878]

I don't have a color printer. So do you think I can save the doorsign on a disk and take it to Kinko's? Will they print the sign on magnetic paper for me (if I bring it with me)?

 

[krdisneybound]

I don't have a color printer. So do you think I can save the doorsign on a disk and take it to Kinko's? Will they print the sign on magnetic paper for me (if I bring it with me)?

I am sure they will print for you - hopefully at a nominal charge. If you lived close to me, I would let you use one of my printers any time.

GA is a little more than a hop skip and jump. LOL

 

[donaldsgal]

I just talked to the company I purchased the magnetic paper from, and I spoke to someone (got her name and extension in case there's a hiccup in the process). She said that they are going to refund the entire amount and have someone check the paper. Woo hoo! So in 3-4 days, I'll get my money back.

In thinking through my options, I wondered how many of you have laminated your door signs. I can laminate 30 door signs (not all mine - also for people on my cruise thread! ) for a total of $45.00 - $1.50 per sheet. Then I could just attach a few magnetic strips to the back of the laminated page. What do you guys think? Has anyone used lamination instead of magnetic paper? Would there be a lot of glare from the hallway light?

The advantage of this option is that people could take off the magnetic strip and then put the sheet in a scrapbook. Opinions appreciated!

 

[taeja71]

.... I wondered how many of you have laminated your door signs. I can laminate 30 door signs (not all mine - also for people on my cruise thread! ) for a total of $45.00 - $1.50 per sheet. Then I could just attach a few magnetic strips to the back of the laminated page. What do you guys think? Has anyone used lamination instead of magnetic paper? Would there be a lot of glare from the hallway light?

The advantage of this option is that people could take off the magnetic strip and then put the sheet in a scrapbook. Opinions appreciated!

I laminated my signs. I think my home made door signs are posted in the early pages of this thread. There's a glare in the photo I posted b/c the sun shines on the fridge (where my signs hang now). Any way, there was no glare on my stateroom door as there was no direct sunlight (or lighting) on our doors.

I'm not sure what would happen if I removed the mag strips. O.k., I just stepped away for a minute and tried removing the mag strip. Wow, that stuff is sticky! There was a loud peeling sound. GOOD NEWS the laminated sheet didn't crease and most of the tacky stuff came off.
What a cool idea to put your door sign in your scrap book. Speaking of ideas, I saw this post today and thought what a great idea. "We've taken our magnetic door sign to our servers & favorite CM's for their signatures and thoughts on the last day.....dkFrom post #4 found on this thread, http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=886275.

I hope my rambling has helped you. It's so hot today, my brain is overheating.

 

[jan&theboys]

We also laminated all of our signs; they seemed to travel better that way for us. Also, we were able to get by purchasing the rolls of magnetic strips instead of buying magnetic paper, which saved us a LOT of money, especially for the amount of signs we had.

 

[whome?]

Hey, did you guys see this clip art (from the t-shirt thread)? It could be made into a great door sign:

 

[Zandy595]

whome? ~ That's actually the free postcard they put in your cabin.

 

[taeja71]

free postcard from our cabin? Hmmm....where'd I put mine??

 

[whome?]

OK, over on the t-shirt site someone has found a link to a place in France with Disney clip-art. Wouldn't this be great for a Castaway Cay day door sign:

http://www.merveilleux.ca/fmick41.htm

Here's the link to their princess pages.....if your French is OK you should be able to navigate around the site.....or just start clicking away!

http://www.merveilleux.ca/princesse.htm

 

[taeja71]

OK, over on the t-shirt site someone has found a link to a place in France with Disney clip-art. Wouldn't this be great for a Castaway Cay day door sign:

http://www.merveilleux.ca/fmick41.htm

Here's the link to their princess pages.....if your French is OK you should be able to navigate around the site.....or just start clicking away!

http://www.merveilleux.ca/princesse.htm

Merci! (that's about all the French I know )

 

[cujobugs]

Can anyone help me get the Disney fonts for my door signs. I've gone to disneyexperience.com and downloaded it into a zip file. Now I can't get the zip file to open. What am I doing wrong? These door signs would look so much better with disney font. Thanks!

 

[donaldsgal]

if you go to www.winzip.com, you can download a program that unzips files. That'll work to unzip the files. Just read the directions.

 

[txaggie94gigem]

parlez vous francais? je parle francais an peu....

okay...i was amazed at how much french i remembered when going to the website...i must have learned more french that i thought in high school!

okay...i am sure this has been answered somewhere on this post before but for the computer illiterate...how do people get pictures from the movie pirates of the caribbean in order to make door signs for that day?

 

[cujobugs]

Yikes. I got your message about Winzip. But I don't want to pay $29 for a download. Thanks anyway.

 

[Marypoppinsiam]

What number on the t-shirt thread did you get this clip art? My son loves Peter Pan and I know he would love to have this on his door.

Thanks
Mary

 

[chipscinderelly]

Yikes. I got your message about Winzip. But I don't want to pay $29 for a download. Thanks anyway.

Winzip has a free version that you can use without unlocking the full version and paying for it. I use it all the time.