Re: Inkjet transparency

Bret W Buckman (buckman@uclink2.berkeley.edu)
Wed, 20 Dec 1995 15:41:46 -0800 (PST)

IMHO, you are generally better off using paper output from your printer,
and oiling it for translucency (using mineral oil, a.k.a. "Baby Oil").
The reason is that toner or printer ink settle into the paper fibers and
produce a nice, dense black, which will block the light quite well. The
same cannot be said of the blacks that you get on acetate, and unless you
can stack up two transparencies in perfect register, the density just
won't be there.
Here in the printmaking studio, we have had fine results using oiled paper
copies/prints/plots as negs or positives for screen-printing, litho,
etching, etc. The larger formats available are also relatively cheap.

"Lather. Rinse. Repeat."
Bret Buckman
U. C. Berkeley Art Dept. Printmaking Technician
buckman@uclink2.berkeley.edu