From: alex chater (alex.chater@appleonline.net)
Date: 02/12/00-04:07:31 AM Z
We used to use screen wash in the print area , it is a favorite of the
graphic and visual comunication students. One time we used an active screen
wash by mistake which managed to fill a four storie building with fumes. We
now use a product called quick off which we purchace from T N Lawrence in
London. They are printmaking suppliers and this is sold to remove dried ink.
It works perfectly with B/W photo copies which if we wish to get a perfect
transfer we pass the copy in contact with the receiving layer through an
etching press with a sheet of card on top to sock up the excess solvent, the
card and the photo copy can then be remove from the studio and allowed to
evaporate else were, we use a fume extraction system, leaving very little
solvent evaporating in the working area. We have also found that when
transfering color copies, that if we pass it through the press to soon it
appears that the solvent has only worked on some of the layers so that the
cyan say will transfer but the magenta won't, I can't remmember which. We
solved this by allowing plenty of time for the quick off to work, about five
minutes but still had some problems. It also works with printed imagery,
glossy magazines etc, although this to requires time to work and need to be
transfered by burnishing the back of the original rather than useing the
press. I do not know what is in the quick off but I do detect xylean or some
kind of aromatic solvent, having worked with xylean, but it certainly does
not appear give off as much fumes as screen wash so I presume that there is
some kind of combination of solvents that reduce the fume problem.
Incidently it attacks plastic
Hope this is of help, alex
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>From: dean kansky <dkansky@hotmail.com>
>To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
>Subject: transfer solvents
>Date: Thu, Feb 10, 2000, 8:36 pm
>
> A few days ago, Judy wrote about a person who wanted to do transfers and
> needed to know what solvent to use. I was reading an old copy of a Brit mag
> "Photo Art International" and a Graham Cooper-Holmes (Sure sounds like a
> Brit!) uses "an industrial silk screen degreasing agent (Seriwash), which is
> supplied by Serocol".
>
> His transfers are far and away the best that I have ever seen.
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