mono printed fabric, origami hexagon in white satin, bead, transparency transfer The transfer is the japanese character for 'folding'.
When I was printing on the tissue paper, I also tried some other surfaces that I had been going to do for a while. And, yes, Judy, one of them was fusible, lol. thanks.
This one was printing on light interfacing. The main problem I had with this is that the rollers pulled the fibres off the surface and jammed the machine. In the end, I had to fold a piece of tissue and fix it at the top, so the fibres didn't catch, and as you can see, I got a good print - missing the first inch or so of course.
This one was on Tyvek and it worked extremely well. The print was really sharp and clear.
This was on nappy liner, and although it looks as though it printed well, most of the ink went straight through and only a wer faint print remained. This is just too thin!
This one was on fusible and printed really well. This is one of the things I had been wanting to try for ages.
This picture also highlights something I learned whilst doing this. The paper you use as a carrier does not have to be a full lenght. you can see here, I have reused a piece of paper and it is shorter because I cut off the previously glued bit at the top (which is now the bottom)
This one is on a polyester non woven (or light lutradur) This tended to bleed a bit. After I had done it, I remembered that it is better to coat it with some medium or PVA before you print to get a sharper print. I'm pretty sure you told me that, Judy. As you can see a lot of the ink went straight through - although this paper will make a nice distressed print for collaging.
This one is a heavy Lutradur and i didn't use a carrier for it. It went through and printed well, except, where it had been folded in the packet, tended to pick up ink from the heads. I will have to work out a way of getting the folds out, perhaps a warm iron with a bit of mist? or pressing under some books.
The last one is tyvek paper, which also did not need a carrier. It has a totally different texture to tyvek fabric and appears more like a very smooth lutradur, which has been pressed. (Which it probably basically is as they are both polyester fibres. Although the image was good, it did bleed a little.
So now, my poor printer has printed on just about everything over the last year!
As you can see, I have done most of my prints at around ATC size, so you will probably see many of these prints cropping up through the year. I'm sure to manipulate them in unimaginable ways, so you might have too look hard to recognise them, lol.
“It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to
be always right by having no ideas at all.” — Edward de Bono
