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I'd like to hear some personal experiences using computerized print on
<bold>transfer</bold>.
Is the T-shirt transfer film a valid material?
What about permanence?
Thanks.
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I have made prints on the ALPS transfer film, and transfered it to art
papers with excellent results. Not yet tested for permanence, but since
the ALPS colors are pigments (and I have tested them, though empirically
and not scientifically as yet), and the transfer medium is a wax or
plastic, I would speculate the results would be as permanent as the
pigments. At present, one of the transferred prints has accumulated
approximately 20 hours of sunlight exposure (and our Florida sun can burn
the human skin in 15 minutes!) with no visible degradation.
The transfer method works very well, not only on T-shirts, but on heavy
materials like mounting boards and plywood. If using the latter, I would
recommend an archival intermediate layer (urethane varnish, lacquer, or
archival paper) be mounted between the wood and the transfer.
Sil Horwitz, FPSA
Technical Editor, PSA Journal
silh@iag.net
Visit http://www.psa-photo.org/
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