[Alt-photo] Carbon Relief with Heated Polyurethane Foam

[Mustafa Umut Sarac]

Hello there,

I posted above to APUG but may be you would be interested also.

25 years ago , I drawed an Picasso painting on to my jean with polyurethane
ink and when you heat iron it , its makes pop up and makes a relief. In
years I deeply interested in polyurethane foams and use at instrument
making.

Tonight , an new idea pops up and I found using polyurethane foam inks
could be used as relief makers with inkjet printers.

Polyurethane is the widest manufactured and used polymer in the world and
it has ten thousand or more variants.

Their foams are used to construct car interior parts , textiles , dashboard
and paint.

They can be raw surfaced or shiny metallic surfaced when you heat it and
they can be transparent or semitransparent.

One liter costs 4 dollars when it is heated it makes 33 liters of foam.

Only the bad thing , if you use large amounts , its cyanine compound can be
dangerous but I think car interiors have no this kind of effect.

PU sellers offers wide selection of hardened pu and you select what finish
you like.

I think this can be a hit to carbon printers. Microwave oven can finish it.

Thanks,

Mustafa Umut Sarac
Istanbul