[6558] in APO Printshop
Re: Just a random thought re printing technology
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leonard H Tower Jr.)
Fri Jun 15 14:23:32 2012
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 14:23:29 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Leonard H Tower Jr." <tower@alum.mit.edu>
To: Joseph Kesselman <keshlam.cat.nospam@verizon.net>
cc: apo-printshop <apo-printshop@mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <4FDB730C.6080502@verizon.net>
Joe
* I've done this too.
With the powder I've used, you had to be careful to apply it evenly,
and heat it evenly.
The shop might have some of this "heat powder to get raised ink".
Might be stale, pass it's useful life.
* Yet another of the many things, that could be tried is making rubber
stamps.
yiLFS -len http://www.art.net/~tower/
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 13:38:20 -0400
From: Joseph Kesselman <keshlam.cat.nospam@verizon.net>
To: apo-printshop <apo-printshop@MIT.EDU>
Subject: Just a random thought re printing technology
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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