[Alt-photo] Re: Carbon Relief with Heated Polyurethane Foam

[Ian Hooper]

This sounds like the old "thermo" inks that were popular for printing 
business cards.  I doubt that it would have much use for a carbon 
printing process.

On 17/01/2014 8:50 PM, Mustafa Umut Sarac wrote:
> 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
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