[6557] in APO Printshop
Just a random thought re printing technology
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joseph Kesselman)
Fri Jun 15 13:38:29 2012
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 13:38:20 -0400
From: Joseph Kesselman <keshlam.cat.nospam@verizon.net>
To: apo-printshop <apo-printshop@MIT.EDU>
Back when I was first learning to letterpress (in Jr. High; I'll let you
guess the year), one of the things we kept in the shop was debossing
powder -- basically, a transparent-plastic dust which would stick to wet
ink and which could then be melted via a toaster-like device to level
out and produce slightly raised type. Nice elegant little touch. It also
had the effect of drying the ink that much faster, by combination of
heat and the added solids.
(Not suggesting we add that to our print shop; just mentioning it as a
traditional trick that offset, inkjet, or laser printers haven't yet
duplicated. I suppose a 3D printer could do it, if you were willing to
wait that long per card.)
--
Joe Kesselman,
http://www.love-song-productions.com/people/keshlam/index.html
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