putitinink@YAHOO.COM on thu 25 oct 01
Sounds complicated...but let us know if it works. ;)
Sue
From: Martin Howard
Date: Thu Oct 25, 2001 7:31 am
Subject: Lettering, was Boxer Bowls rescue project -- bowl on the way
on how to do hand-written lettering without the colours smearing? >
A computer friend has got me an old Epson printer with a fabric band
through
which needles put the ink (for ink now read finely sieved glaze or
slip)
onto the page of paper (now read decal transfer paper). He's just
cleaning
it up for me. The modern Stylus inkjet systems have become to complex
to
risk putting glaze into the old cartridges, but I would like to try a
half
and half mix sometime (on somebody else's machine:-))
This may well be the way, for me, to put names on pots.
I'm hopeless at calligraphy and artwork!
At the pottery parties each child throws a bowl or a mug as well as
hand
builds something interesting on the work table.
Keeping the names together with the ware is not always easy.
Just had a party where their was a Jamie and a Jaimie.
So if this computer system works I will get the names beforehand and
print
out transfers to go onto each piece of work.
Will they smear? I will let you know:-)
In the meantime don't throw those old printers away! Or dig them out
from
the bottom of the rubbish pit and clean them up again.
Martin Howard
Webbs Cottage Pottery
Woolpits Road, Great Saling
BRAINTREE, Essex CM7 5DZ
01371 850 423
martin@w...
putitinink@YAHOO.COM on thu 25 oct 01
Thanks for the suggestion, but....I think I'm gonna have to sign
ALLLL my posts with *I've already checked the archives, but I still
have a question.* *Grin* I've spent a heck of a lot more time
looking through the archives lately than in reading this board. (The
amount of time spent searching the archives DOES cut down on my
posting though -- even when the answer is NOT in the archives....
which may be just as well since the board moves a bit slowly
anyway. ;D Not a particularly active list, is it?)
But maybe I wasn't looking at the right section? I didn't see a
section on *lettering,* the *painting* discussion didn't seem to be
the info I need, though I did find *calligraphy,* I've already tried
the methods suggested. I tried slip on greenware, bisqued it, then
put a coat of clear over it and glaze fired it. The lettering looks
a bit blurry. I tried slip on bisque-ware, then a coat of clear and
that was even more smeared. I don't want to do a decal or even a
transfer (though maybe I don't have the clearest idea of how
transfers would work). What did I miss?
Maybe a different glaze or slip would work better? (I'm using what's
available at the studios I go to.)
Sue I've-already-checked-the-archives,-but-I-still-have-a-question.
From: Earl Brunner
Date: Thu Oct 25, 2001 2:11 pm
Subject: Re: Lettering, was Boxer Bowls rescue project -- bowl on
the way
Check the Archives, been discussed before.
Martin Howard wrote:
> > on how to do hand-written lettering without the colours smearing? >
>
> A computer friend has got me an old Epson printer with a fabric
band through
> which needles put the ink (for ink now read finely sieved glaze or
slip)
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