Re: photocopier toner and ceramic imaging

Luis Nadeau (nadeaul@nbnet.nb.ca)
Sun, 16 Nov 1997 11:49:50 -0400

At 9:06 PM -0700 97/11/12, Richard Sullivan wrote:
>At 10:50 PM 11/12/97 -0400, Luis wrote:
>
>>First of all, instead of trying to possibly electrocute or fry yourself
>>getting to the paper half way through the process, couldn't you use some of
>>the transfer materials designed to put images on t-shirts? I suspect that
>>all of the pigment would transfer nicely.
>
>Maybe you could have a repair man put a switch on the heating element
>circuit. Well, if is your copier and not a schools or something like that.
>
>I've had a report from Michael Silver that he is very successfully putting
>pt/pd images on slabs of greenware clay and them firing that. He is using
>a porcelin mix, he says it's koalin. . This is certainly not as neat as
>doing it with a copier.
>
>The traditional way to do pt on ceramics was to make a wetplate negative,
>tone it in platinum which actually replaces the silver with platinum and
>strip off the collodion and afix it to the ceramic. Collodion is virtually
>ashless when it fires.

There is a manual on the production of platinotypes on porcelain, glass,
and similar materials: T. Geymet: _Traité pratique de platinotypie sur
émail, sur porcelaine et sur verre_. Paris, 1889.

It should be noted however that most commercial plants that produced
photo-enamels and photoceramics used dichromated colloid processes.

My own book on photoceramics is months away I'm afraid.

Luis Nadeau
NADEAUL@NBNET.NB.CA
Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
http://www3.nbnet.nb.ca/nadeaul/