Thread: Transfer printed picture (laser print) to timber

Or just get yourself one of these and print straight onto timber(or glass, metal, foam, plastic, textiles...) in full color:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS3umr-SCEY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4lB9713wyw

Ours has a 3.5m x 2.5m bed but height is restricted to about 50mm, very nice bit of kit at $200k-ish.

I'll check under the couch cushions but I think that one of those might be a bit out of my league

Darn nice though

Originally Posted by cray-

Or just get yourself one of these and print straight onto timber(or glass, metal, foam, plastic, textiles...) in full color:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS3umr-SCEY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4lB9713wyw

Ours has a 3.5m x 2.5m bed but height is restricted to about 50mm, very nice bit of kit at $200k-ish.

That first one is so sloooooooooooooooooow!! Why not just stencil??

Overkill on the technology methinks.

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If you ever have the need to transfer a pattern to a flat piece of timber just use a clothes iron.

Print the picture as a reverse image. Use a copy machine to make a copy. This should be the Xerox type technology. Then just iron the pattern onto the timber. The fresher the copy the better. Within a day is OK but much longer the process will not work as well.

I've done it with a laser printer but it was an old laser printer.

Color laser? I don't know.

Originally Posted by artme

That first one is so sloooooooooooooooooow!! Why not just stencil??

Overkill on the technology methinks.

Yeah sorry, that was a terrible example, I just posted the first Google hit for "Océ Arizona print on wood" or something to show one actually printing on timber instead of thin paper.

The point is, at the same speed it can print pretty much photo quality, full color onto a range of surfaces. It's a neat toy, with a few tricks but certainly not the most efficient way to do every type of print. It's for sign & display graphics first and foremost. I was just showing off because I get to use one every day. =D

Also sorry for de-railing the real purpose of this thread, some nifty techniques, cheers!

Also, regarding the technique in the very first video, you don't have to limit yourself to A4 or A3 images on a consumer printer/copier. These can be scaled up to A0 (1189x841mm) or even larger continuous prints, like wallpaper drops over a few meters. Just find a print shop with a black and white plan printer (laser/toner same thing), they take rolls of paper over 1000mm wide and cut sheets to length. And compared to large format color inkjet, they're dirt cheap. Don't pay more than $10/m^2. Then use the YouTube technique to transfer onto ply or OSB sheet stock for massive b/w poster boards.

Originally Posted by rrich

I've done it with a laser printer but it was an old laser printer.

Color laser? I don't know.

It might work, they both use toner (a very fine powder) which is fused to the paper with heat, as opposed to squirted out in tiny droplets like a liquid inkjet printer. Not sure how different(or not) the formulations between color toner and black toner are, but I reckon there is a fair chance it would behave the same.

*EDIT*: of course I should've just clicked on some of the YouTube suggested videos and seen all the color laser print vids with the gel medium or iron technique. So yeah, apparently color laser works fine. OK I'm done now. =]

I was on a web page yesterday, instructables I think he used water proof PVA instead of gel said it worked better for him


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