More About Printing On Wood

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> So, have you tried the acetone trick with color prints from a
>printer? If so, how did it come out?
>
I haven't been out looking for a place that will run the thinner laser
paper through their color copier. With the daily highs in the low 20s
I've been staying home getting some art work done.

My interest is in restoring old radios and am looking for another
method for restoring the faux woodgraining that was on many radios of
the 1930s. I posted this method I developed to this group once before;
http://pages.cthome.net/ptf/photofin/photoFinish.html

For some really interesting information about how faux woodgrain dashes
on old cars are restored, check out this thread on the Antique Radio
Forum ,
http://antiqueradios.com/cgi-bin/forums/forumdisplay.cgi?action=topic

Look for the thread Di Noc that was started by Jdee. Click on all the
links. This is a very interesting discussion.

Stewart




T. wrote:

>Sun, Jan 18, 2004, 12:45pm [email protected] (Stewart Schooley) says:
>Black and white prints from a laser copy machine can be transfered to
>wood using acetone. Do a mirror image print, tape it face down, soak
>with acetone using a rag and rub it with a spoon or other tool. <snip>
>The copy place near me won't run ordinary black and white laser paper
>through their color copier. <snip>
>
> You're saying with a laser copy machine. My printer has color
>capability. I'm wondering if the acetone trick would work with it. I'v
>done the iron transfer, with photo copy machine, but never thought about
>trying it with prints from my printer - no one's ever mentioned trying
>that, just photo copies, so it never struck me until now to try it.
>Except, I don't need to transfer anything. LOL
>
> With what I do right now, I just print out what I need (just
>letters and/or number), trim to size, and glue down. Having the paper
>around the letters - numbers is part of it, I don't need, or want, them
>to stand-alone.
>
> So, have you tried the acetone trick with color prints from a
>printer? If so, how did it come out?
>
>JOAT
>You have two choices in life: You can dissolve into the mainstream, or
>you can be distinct. To be distinct is to be different. To be different,
>you must strive to be what no one else but you can be.
>- Alan Ashley-Pitt
>
>Life just ain't life without good music. - JOAT
>Web Page Update 19 Jan 2004.
>Some tunes I like.
>http://community-2.webtv.net/Jakofalltrades/SOMETUNESILIKE/
>
>
>

Han <[email protected]> writes:
>Please don't tell me it can be done simpler ...
because you don't want to know how much time you could have saved, or
because you know how, and don't want to be inundated?

For as much as i've done it, that's the process i've used.
or rather, i've designed it to be reverse from the start.
but i know there are processors which will flip the text output
easier.

I imagine you could create a postscript filter that would do it with
minimal programming, then create a virtual printer that would apply
the filter and resend to your real printer.

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Sun, Jan 18, 2004, 12:45pm [email protected] (Stewart=A0Schooley) says:
Black and white prints from a laser copy machine can be transfered to
wood using acetone. Do a mirror image print, tape it face down, soak
with acetone using a rag and rub it with a spoon or other tool. <snip>
The copy place near me won't run ordinary black and white laser paper
through their color copier. <snip>

You're saying with a laser copy machine. My printer has color
capability. I'm wondering if the acetone trick would work with it. I'v
done the iron transfer, with photo copy machine, but never thought about
trying it with prints from my printer - no one's ever mentioned trying
that, just photo copies, so it never struck me until now to try it.
Except, I don't need to transfer anything. LOL

With what I do right now, I just print out what I need (just
letters and/or number), trim to size, and glue down. Having the paper
around the letters - numbers is part of it, I don't need, or want, them
to stand-alone.

So, have you tried the acetone trick with color prints from a
printer? If so, how did it come out?

JOAT
You have two choices in life: You can dissolve into the mainstream, or
you can be distinct. To be distinct is to be different. To be different,
you must strive to be what no one else but you can be.
- Alan Ashley-Pitt=A0=A0=A0

Life just ain't life without good music. - JOAT
Web Page Update 19 Jan 2004.
Some tunes I like.
http://community-2.webtv.net/Jakofalltrades/SOMETUNESILIKE/

Sun, Jan 18, 2004, 12:45pm [email protected] (Stewart=A0Schooley) says:
<snip> Works much better and easier than trying to use an iron to
transfer the print.
Art supply stores that sell magic markers for artists <snip>

Oops, fogot to mention. For those times when I do need some type
of graphic, I just print it out, black & white, trim, glue it to the
wood, then usually just color it in, as needed, with magic markers -
but, also have been known to use latex paint. This has been working out
nicely for me, and, for what I'm doing, it fits in very well. I now try
to stay away from stuff like acetone, which is why I'm now using
water-base poly, and latex paint - water cleanup.

I normally custom make any graphics I need. I sketch out what I
want, get it the way I want, then go over the fial design in black.
Then I trace that, with a Sharpee marker, onto clear plastic. Photo
copy that, then as in the first paragraph. Works out quite nicely for
me, at minimal cost.

JOAT
You have two choices in life: You can dissolve into the mainstream, or
you can be distinct. To be distinct is to be different. To be different,
you must strive to be what no one else but you can be.
- Alan Ashley-Pitt=A0=A0=A0

Life just ain't life without good music. - JOAT
Web Page Update 19 Jan 2004.
Some tunes I like.
http://community-2.webtv.net/Jakofalltrades/SOMETUNESILIKE/

How do you do a mirror image print? Thanks for advise.

"Stewart Schooley" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Black and white prints from a laser copy machine can be transfered to
> wood using acetone. Do a mirror image print, tape it face down, soak
> with acetone using a rag and rub it with a spoon or other tool. Works
> much better and easier than trying to use an iron to transfer the print.
>
> Art supply stores that sell magic markers for artists will have a
> colorless blender which artist's use to blend colors. It has a felt tip
> nib which makes it a good rubbing tool and obviously contains acetone
> because it works exactly the same.
>
> The paper used in color copy machines is too thick to get a good image
> transferred. The copy place near me won't run ordinary black and white
> laser paper through their color copier. I'll have to look around and see
> if I can find a plce that will. Will let you know.
>
> Stewart
>

"Dave W" <[email protected]> wrote in news:Demdnau6Jt4WapbdRVn-
[email protected]:

> How do you do a mirror image print? Thanks for advise.
>

Make a graphics file from your (whatever) program (I used PowerPoint,
because I am familiar with it). Save it is a tiff, gif, jpg or whatever
suits your simple graphics program (I use Irfanview, it's free). Use the
flip horizontally option. That is the mirror image file.

Please don't tell me it can be done simpler ...
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Philip Lewis <[email protected]> writes:

> Han <[email protected]> writes:
>>Please don't tell me it can be done simpler ...
> because you don't want to know how much time you could have saved, or
> because you know how, and don't want to be inundated?
>
> For as much as i've done it, that's the process i've used.
> or rather, i've designed it to be reverse from the start.
> but i know there are processors which will flip the text output
> easier.
>
> I imagine you could create a postscript filter that would do it with
> minimal programming, then create a virtual printer that would apply

Just insert the following line before each page in the postscript
file:

clippath pathbbox pop 0 translate -1 1 scale

and you are done...

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