Sometimes, people will ask you to do weird things on their boards…
What about you? Please, post your weirdest artworks here.
haha! that’s hilarious. printed on glass ?
ha ha ha!! thats pretty damn god!!! respect to ever thought of that!! ummm should i say cheers!!!
No, it’s actually very thin cotton cloth.
Hi Balsa,
It will be interesting to see how that print laminates...I'm crossing my fingers for your sake that it does'nt bleed, as I have experienced...
Josh
Hi Josh, I laminated yesterday in the evening and sure enough there was a bit of bleeding but only yellow and very little. Almost un-noticeable. I was lucky, I guess…
Hi Balsa,
Its hard to say, the luck factor... I had some bleed tragically under epoxy and ended up sealing the prints with 2pac before laminating. I tried a number of methods and cloths but it was still touchy. I was never able to establish definitively whether it was a printing ink thing, resin, cloth or technique.
Polyester or Epoxy?
Josh
Polyester. Actually, I think that different things can be done to keep bleeding to a minimum (which I didn’t do, BTW): wash the cloth before use, then iron. (i only ironed…) Have the picture printed in reverse so that the ink won’t be in direct contact with the squeegee (but then colors will be a little less vibrant). Have a thin fiberglass cloth laminated over the printed cloth, at the same time. Or just praying…
What is tthe process, and what is the material? By the way it drapes it seems like it has some weight.
Cost?
Thanks
The cloth is cotton and i would say about 2 to 3 oz. The process is quite simple: mask off rails (pretty much the opposite of what you would do for a cutlap), then laminate the cloth with resin. When set, cut along masking tape, remove masking tape, laminate glass cloth over it. The cotton cloth wets very easily and there is no delamination problem that I know of. You might start by squeegeeing some resin directly on the blank before draping the cloth upon it, but I don’t think it’s really necessary and it probably would add weight.
Hey Speed,
I've ran into that problem with polyester layups (usually with the yellow tending to bloom causing a hue shift in the image getting yellower) but I've never seen it with epoxy. It really shows up in the grays turning kinda olive. I figured out that by reducing the overall yellow in the image with photoshop that can be somewhat mitigated. This is with an Epson large format printer using aqueous pigment inks.
Back in the old days before pigment inks where around, I never had the problem with dye inks, but dye inks fade quickly out in the sun. I used to coat the prints with a UV inhibitor to slow that down, but eventually they would fade.
I think probably the best setup is a solvent based printer. Solvent based inks really bond to the substrate and are pretty "bullet proof"-that's why they're used for vehicle wraps and outdoor signage. Another thing is a lot of substrates are treated with special coatings to make the surface and the inks bond better ( think similar to how fiberglass is coated with a sizing (a bonding agent like silane) so resin can stick to it). With uncoated substrates your are at the mercy of what you laminate them with.
-ATOM
hey balsa
.this was to hide some contaminated glass. it came off the roll like that and lines in, so we just went over the lines with cooler lines.
You know Josh we had that completely sussed in SD. Had the printer and everything. Dougall pulled the plug on it because he wanted it to print white and it wouldn't .......
Hey Greg, where is that equipment now and whose is it?
Josh
Checker pattern cotton cloth from Wal Mart full inlay. No bleeds
try a fixitive
Hi Balsa !
Nice work !
I`ve sent you a PM, could u have a look at it ?
Thanks a lot !
I’m so sorry!!! I had seen your PM and had planned to measure the board and tell you but I’ve got so many things going on at the same time I just forgot. i’m going right now, check your PMs soon.
hi Balsa !
Dont worry at all !!! I ve just sent you this message just in case you didnt check you PMs
Again thanks a lot !
here’s something I doodled on the bottom of my board a few nights ago.
