Craig Fulladosa on sun 12 mar 00
Does anyone know if the decals made by computer printed from a inkset
printer on to special decal paper and fired in a special oven (costs
over $500!) 1 at a time in about 5 minutes can be used in a regular
electric kiln to fire many at one time in a slower time period. I think
this could be a real asset to some potters for decorative work. Someting
new that could bring a new tool for decorating. I want to use it with my
electric kiln though not with the specially made small oven they sell
for using with the decals lke the ones you see in the shopping malls.
Please reply privately if you know if this can be done. I hope I get
some response because most of my posts seem so bizarre I rarely get much
of a response. Is it my bad breath? Or am I just plain stupid?
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Craig
The Clayman
http://home.earthlink.net/~craigfull
Jeff Lawrence on mon 13 mar 00
Craig wrote asking about decals:
Does anyone know if the decals made by computer printed from a inkset
printer on to special decal paper and fired in a special oven (costs
over $500!) 1 at a time in about 5 minutes can be used in a regular
electric kiln to fire many at one time in a slower time period.
Hello Craig,
I do not know anything about inkjet decals. However, if you are computer
literate you can get commercial quality decals from a number of
manufacturers for not that much. Plan ahead and gang all the images you want
on on a big sheet (leave a half inch between them) and send in an eps file.
I think it was a buck or two per sheet for several hundred 12 X 14 sheets -
check with your source for size, though, before you do layout. Everyone's
equipment is different.
Regular old electric firing (to 06 or 5 depending on the decals you choose)
is the recommended method. Overfiring gives you a kind of interesting faded
look.
WARNING: do not apply dedals to concave surfaces if you wish to preserve any
shred of self-esteem.
decalcomaniacally yours,
Jeff Lawrence ph. 505-753-5913
Sun Dagger Design fx. 505-753-8074
18496 US HWY 285/84 jml@sundagger.com
Espanola, NM 87532 www.sundagger.com
iandol on tue 14 mar 00
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I have been asking around now for about five years if there are any inkjet
printer inks compounded from ceramic stains. This should be possible since
ceramic inks are made for screen printing. However, I doubt very much that
ordinary inkjet ink will withstand anything more that the heat of a domestic
iron when used to decorate tee shirts and skivvies. Has anyone contacted =
Cookson
Matthey about this one? Would the stuff from those ceramic pens work in an =
injet
printer?
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