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I used to do custom decals on water-slide decal printer paper like the custom named character bases and they work just fine. Laser printers are best, but those nameplates were done on an inkjet printer with no issues, just make sure you buy the correct paper for your type of printer and wait for the ink to fully completely dry if you use inkjet. Seal the decals with a spray of gloss varnish before you try to apply them.

Nowadays I have a laser printer and my absolute favorite way to do decals for flat areas is to print a reversed image onto label backing paper, the shiny backing paper that the labels and stickers come on that you'd normally throw away as trash after you peel the label off it. Set your printer settings for glossy photo paper and max resolution. Print out whatever (reversed) image you want onto the backing paper, the toner sticks to the backing paper but not very well because it's so glossy. Spread a layer of varnish on the model where you want to "decal", and rub the backing paper into the wet varnish and leave it to dry. The backing paper peels away easily and leaves the toner embedded in the varnish layer, so it's super durable and you can do as large of a "decal" as a full 8x11 sheet on pretty much any surface. A friend originally showed me this technique for how he transferred his own digital art to wood blocks and I immediately wanted to try it to make my own "pre-printed" terrain. Full credit to "The Crafsman" youtube channel, he uses it for a lot of his projects and has a few videos on how to do it: