[Alt-photo] Re: Transferring photo on mdf-board

[Kenneth Watson]

You might try coating the MDF with albumen and then re-try to see if the
ink or photo process will stick.I know colodion will adhere to albumen on
glass ( I read ceramic as well) and not wash off.


On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 7:32 AM, Matti Koskinen <mjkoskin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> Im searching a way to transfer a heavily manipulated photo on mdf-board. In
> my quest of doing other types of prints, i found xdog (somewhere on
> github)  and playing with the params,, i got just like woodcarving, and of
> course id like to do a real woodcarving. I tried with my dremel-clone
> carving a test, and the result using intaglio-ink was quite promising, and
> carving wasnt so difficult after all.
>
> Now id like to transfer this image on mdf. I tried the laser tone transfer
> with acetone, but no good. Also tried heat-transfer with a cloth iron and
> laser transparency, but that didnt work any better. Coating with cyano and
> exposing may or may not work, the surface  may be too reciptive or the pH
> all wrong.
>
> Anybody have any ideas of doing this? One method i tried long ago was to
> press a soaked blotting paper with acetone and the laser print on the mdf
> in a letterpress, but that either wasnt successful.
>
> Tnx
>
> -m
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