Fredrick Paget on sat 6 mar 04
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>Does anyone know if you can make ceramic decals from photos and glaze
>over that to make it permanent?
>May be nice for a pet urn, or people urn for that matter.
>John
It can be done. You can make decals in a laser printer that uses
toner with iron in it and get a sepia image as an overglaze at cone
04 but if you try to glaze over it it will bleach out to a pale ghost
of an image. You can put these on porcelain bisque and reduction fire
them to cone 9 and get a nice dark image. I have not yet tried
glazing over one of those in another firing but it is something to
try.
A lot of people are working on this now. I have reports from France
and Ireland of inkjet printers that have fritted ceramic stains in
them but so far have never actually seen one.
A German named Zimmer has developed a set of toners with fritted
stains in them in the 4 colors used in color laser printers. Prices
for his system run in the 5 figures. There is a US representative (or
at least there was 2 years ago. I don't know how he is doing in this
rather limited market).
Actually grave markers are a pretty good market in a lot of countries
in Europe and Asia. They use the 150 year old gum bichromate process
or a more modern one like Chromalin art - a product of the DuPont
company in Germany. These are a darkroom processes and they use arc
lights to expose it. There are also machines that will automate the
Chromalin process but they sell for thousands and take a lot of room
plus a trained operator.
There are a lot of postings in the archives on this subject.
Fred
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From Fred Paget, Marin County, California, USA
fredrick@well.com
John on sat 6 mar 04
Hi All,
Does anyone know if you can make ceramic decals from photos and glaze =
over
that to make it permanent.=20
May be nice for a pet urn, or people urn for that matter.
John
Saic1984@AOL.COM on sun 7 mar 04
This process is sometimes known as "decalomania" or photo ceramics. E-mail
me off-list for information on resources.
Andre
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