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Re: slightly OT - dry prints


On 3 jun 2007, at 18:58, Katharine Thayer wrote:

Interesting, Henk. I'm not sure how the distinction between "emulsion transfer" and "image transfer" applies to inkjet prints. There couldn't be an "emulsion transfer" with inkjet, because there's no emulsion, right? ... all there is to transfer is ink, whichever way you transfer it. Or am I misunderstanding the distinction you're making?

Yes and No ... one of the discussions on the 'alt-list' decades ago was about the so-called XEROX-transfer:
take a cheap color copy , coat with acrylic medium, let dry, repeat 3 times, let dry, back to warm water with some soap -e.g(!)photoflo- and start to peel off the paper on the backside, resulting in an image stick to the transparent acrylic , now just glue it to some carrier, like silver paper; the astonishing thing is that i used a 25 cent copy to do it, and after more then 6 years the colors are still ok.
For the inkjet i will use pigment ink, but the overal idea is the same, apart from the fact that you can use polypropylene sheets, prepare with some white acrylic paint, 3 times acrylic gloss medium, next Inkaid or rabbit glue to allow inkjet printing, stick it to a carrier and go ahead (in six month or so i will tell about the results ...... the road to inkjet print on Awagami Unryu toke also something like 6 month ....)
The image transfer -the WETtransfer- will probably take another 6 month :-) ; here you transfer the ink from the inkjetprint to a carrier.
Cheers,
Henk

On Jun 3, 2007, at 7:17 AM, henk thijs wrote:

and what you mean by transfers from inkjet?



using prepared polyester sheets (digital negs) as a carrier for the inkjet print, one can transfer the inkjet print to an aquarel paper.


In a review in the Oregonian this weekend, there was a description of photographs that were inkjet prints that were then transferred to canvas using acrylic medium to lift and transfer the image, with a result that "resembles an encaustic painting."


Using acrylic medium results in an emulsion transfer, like the well-known polaroid transfer (transferring the 'skin' of an well developed polaroid to a carrier).
If you want an image transfer (like the one in polaroid transfers: before developing is complete, transfer the wet 'RGB-layers' to a damp carrier) you have to prepare the inkjet sheet with Golden Acrylic Flow release and then transfer to a carrier.
Cheers,
Henk


I haven't seen the work in question, so can't evaluate the claim, but there's another possibility for a creative person to exploit.


Hopefully in the next half a year,
Henk
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