Re: photos on ceramics

Bas van Velzen (eland@knoware.nl)
Wed, 11 Sep 1996 15:33:43 +0100

>>You can have decals made for you which are specifically designed to be
>>fired onto ceramic. The decals can be made in different colors.
>>Apparently there is also a glaze you can purchase that has photo
>>sensitive properties to it. I have just seen a 3 foot by 8 foot full
>>color photograph of bright yellow autumn leafed aspen trees on porcelain
>>on metal.
>>Check w/your local cermics supplier.
>>Jack
>
>Jack, or anyone else: All the decal production I have seen produces "lith"
>(high contrast) effects or crude halftones. Are you aware of anything, in
>terms of decals or photosensitive emulsions that provide true continuous
>tone effect?
>
>Luis Nadeau
>awef6t@mis.ca
>Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
>http://www.mi.net/dialin/awef6t/

Luis,

maybe you know the Fuji-Inax Photocera process? In Henry Wilhelms book* see
pages 44 and 123. The subscript on page 44 reads

" The images of Fuji-Inax Ohotocera photographs have a screen pattern that
can be observed under magnification. Made with a ceramic support, Photocera
photographs are fired at high temperatures to fuse the pigment image to the
base. Fuji claims the photographs are permanent, even when displayed for
many years outdoors in sunlight and rain".

If I read the image well it looks as a "high" resolution screen so no
crudeness here. I do not know where to have such photo's made in Holland
but it should be possible somewhere. Also the Fresson process mentioned on
same page (123)

Bas

* Wilhelm, Henry Gilmer
The permanence and care of color photographs.
Preservation Publishing Company, Grinnell 1993
ISBN 0-911515-00-3 hardbound
ISBN 0-911515-01-1 paperback

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