How to transfer photocopy to wood? to Linoleum?

[Alan Cross]

How about just plain old carbon paper…for the transfer I mean…
Alan

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[doug_h]

Carbon paper (Alan, are showing our age?) or saral paper works great, but sometimes I find in tracing the image I work it to death and lose a kind of spontaneity. Otherwise, it’s a great way to go. On occasion, though, I find through the tracing process, an image just doesn’t work.
Doug

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[pinkbubelz]

I haven’t tried it, but I thinK I read somewhere that you can use rubbing alcohol on the back of the photocopy (if it’s toner) and then rub it down….

Good luck. I’ll be interested to hear what works.

I think I did try the ironing technic with the blocks that are made out of the rubbery eraser-type material before… (It worked okay)

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[Diane Cutter]

Oh, my gosh! Bless this forum….

I’ve been doing it the old fashioned way…. putting the photocopy on my lightbox, retracing on the back, and then using black carbon paper (which, by the way, is getting harder and harder to find). It’s messy and boring.

I have certainly been in the dark ages. Thanks, forum, getting me up to speed.

Diane

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[printzessofthenorth]

Dear Moderator:

This thread oughtta be a sticky!

Thank you

debbieryder

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Hi Guys

I agree that a fresh photo copy and testing several types of machines is the ticket to getting a good transfer. When I find a good copy machine I found that a blending marker gives you great control in doing the transfer and little mess. A blending marker is a perm. marker with no ink in the pen to blend other marker colors together. A lot of Industrial design folks use them for marker drawings. They are handy to test copiers as well. Just make a copy and whip out the marker and give it a test on the spot.

happy transfer.

Rich

[Printmakerguy]

Ahhh… The thread that never dies…

Great tip! I will have to go get a blending marker- I still havent found a decent photocopier yet… Perhaps this is the trick- Makes it a lot easier to test, for sure!

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[awcomix]

Hi I came across these forums whilst researching photocopy art. I noticed a discussion based on the transferring of photocopies onto lino. I’m very interested in this topic as earlier in the year I was looking at simular things but then decided why go to the trouble of transferring photocopies, why not just use photocopies as prints? If anyone is interested in discussing this with me email me at [email][email protected][/email]

[mLee]

Placing the photocopy face down on the block then rubbing oil of wintergreen on the back works.

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[bridog]

wow
lots of methods here
I have tried a few of these, some successful and some not so much
since I am a bit more of a “patient type” I tend to scan my original drawing and print it out in reverse off my printer
then on backside of paper I rub litho crayon across the surface
I tape edges of the paper (crayon side down) onto the lino block edge and underside and trace lines or shade large areas with pencil overtop of original drawing facing me
the litho crayon transfers onto surface of lino quite well I find

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[Joost]

I have never tried the following, but it should work IF you have an inkjet printer with a straigth paper path and your linoleum is not too thick (my printer can accomodate a thickness up to 5 mm): coat the linoleum with InkAID (a coating especially made to allow for printing on any surface) and scan & print the image (of course backwards).

"I started out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened" - D.H. Lawrence

[travelerjjm]

Has anyone tried Lazertran[/URL]?
While more expensive than a photocopy, it might produce good results. Sounds like less work and no toxic chemicals.

[dragoni689]

For you screen printers, Mr. Murphy’s Orange Based Screen wash solution works great for photocopy transfers- because it has a slow drying time and dissolves plastics immediately, in our shop here at SCAD we’ve found it to work wonders.

All you have to do is put a liberal amount on a paper towel or rag and rub it into the surface of the wood or linoleum block you wish to transfer your image to, place your photo copy where you wish to have it transfer, put down a couple news-print backing sheets, and either burnish or run the entire thing through a printing press under printing pressure with blankets. The image transfers better using this method than any other I’ve tried (and i’ve done acetone, laquer thinner, wintergreen, heat transfer, and the blending markers).

all photo-copy dust is: microscopically ground plastic dust particles. Therefore, really, any solvent that will dissolve or melt plastic will work. Your alcahols and stronger citric acids work best. Heat can work pretty well too- especially on linoleum. Got an iron and a couple sheets of newsprint?

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[HeftArt]

traveler: I tried Lazertran with linoleum and found it to be unsatisfactory with inkjet prints. Its really just a decal that once transferred and dry it peels off when cut through with an exacto and crumples when trying to cut using standard linotools. Their support suggested several ways they said maybe might work but they involved solvents I didn’t want to deal with.

[CarolAnnH]

I know nothing about any of this. I don’t know what planet I live on but I’d never heard of blending pens! Well, anyway, I did a Yahoo Search for several of the products mentioned so now I know what they are. In my search I came across two sites that might be of interest in regard to this discussion about transferring images –

http://www.art-e-zine.co.uk/imageblend.html
(a transfer process using photocopies and a blender pen – onto watercolour paper.)

http://www.stampinart.com/library/techniques/blenderPenRefill.html
(Refill recipes and how to refill a blender pen)

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