Martin Howard on tue 20 jun 00
If you have old printer cartridges AND a printer which still works, try
refilling the cartridges with very fine glaze.
Then print onto transfer paper.
What we potters really need is a simple system of using this excellent
technology for making pottery decals.
Martin Howard
Webb's Cottage Pottery
Woolpits Road, Great Saling
BRAINTREE, Essex CM7 5DZ
England
martin@webbscottage.co.uk
george koller on tue 20 jun 00
Martin,
I have been doing considerable experimenting with liquids
dispensing over time. There are at least two major problems
with using an ink jet printer for any "glaze" I know of:
1. Printer software is generally "digital" and can only see
"on and offs" - at a pixel level. ( It is based on very precise ink
characteristics which are unlikely to be matched by other substances.
The Left to right, right to left scan is also highly inefficient in
for some types of work and needs to be replaced for any sort
of multi-color work in the longer view anyway.)
2. Viscosity/boiling temps/"impurities" are very unlikely to
be close enough to the original designed for material. (The
characteristics of the inks are so precisely toleranced
that is even unlikely that the refill ink for one cartridge
will substitute satisfactorily for another.
However, I believe there is a way, and as it is largely software
based the price and availability of the complete system required
can become reasonable over time as more is learned and the
software is allowed to evolve. My current hardware experimenting
and software development is centered around a metering pump, an ultrasonic nozzle,
and software designed from the beginning very particularly for clay applications.
The machine that carries the tools
is large, fast, tolerates surface irregularities and is capable of doing multiple
operations to the clay surface - one of which is to incise
into the glaze (i.e. line art).
Best,
George Koller
Martin Howard wrote:
> If you have old printer cartridges AND a printer which still works, try
> refilling the cartridges with very fine glaze.
> Then print onto transfer paper.
>
> What we potters really need is a simple system of using this excellent
> technology for making pottery decals.
>
> Martin Howard
> Webb's Cottage Pottery
> Woolpits Road, Great Saling
> BRAINTREE, Essex CM7 5DZ
> England
> martin@webbscottage.co.uk
>
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Richard Jeffery on tue 20 jun 00
Martin - great idea, but inkjet ink needs to be very smooth. How about an
oxide wash instead?
Richard
Bounemouth UK
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Subject: Re: Printer ink. Glaze
If you have old printer cartridges AND a printer which still works, try
refilling the cartridges with very fine glaze.
Then print onto transfer paper.
What we potters really need is a simple system of using this excellent
technology for making pottery decals.
Martin Howard
Webb's Cottage Pottery
Woolpits Road, Great Saling
BRAINTREE, Essex CM7 5DZ
England
martin@webbscottage.co.uk
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