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2nd February 2015, 08:12 PM #1
Transfer printed picture (laser print) to timber
Woah!!! This is a nice result:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?x-yt-ts...yt-cl=85114404
I assume it works just as well for color laser prints.
Previously I'd only known this technique from Steve Ramsey (which uses an inkjet printer but is quicker and requires a little more finesse):
http://youtu.be/bdo64-wo63Q?t=6m14sEvery time you make a typo, the errorists win.
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3rd February 2015, 05:08 PM #2Senior Member
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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.Michael
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3rd February 2015, 08:19 PM #3
I'll check under the couch cushions but I think that one of those might be a bit out of my league
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4th February 2015, 06:19 AM #5rrich Guest
More for patterns
More For patterns
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.
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6th February 2015, 01:47 AM #6Senior Member
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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!Michael
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6th February 2015, 01:55 AM #7Senior Member
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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.
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. =]
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6th February 2015, 07:24 AM #8
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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