A friend of mine learned a simple technique for transfering xerox copies in her printmaking class in college that involves gum arabic and a fresh xerox copy. We've been trying to make it work- but to no avail- anyone know this process and what we might be doing wrong?
1- light coat a plexi-glass plate with gum arabic (we've been using the little bottle made for watercolor- is print-making gum arabic different?)
2- lay fresh xerox copy on plexi image side up coat with generous layer of gum arabic, rub off excess with damp sponge
3- roll with oil-based printing ink
4-gently wipe off excess with damp sponge (THIS IS THE PART WHERE IT STARTS TO GO WRONG) ink should stick to toner areas
5- print using xerox as your plate
When we do it, the ink adheres to the entire surface, and when we start to sponge it off, the image and paper starts to fall apart.....
HELP!!!
1- light coat a plexi-glass plate with gum arabic (we've been using the little bottle made for watercolor- is print-making gum arabic different?)
2- lay fresh xerox copy on plexi image side up coat with generous layer of gum arabic, rub off excess with damp sponge
3- roll with oil-based printing ink
4-gently wipe off excess with damp sponge (THIS IS THE PART WHERE IT STARTS TO GO WRONG) ink should stick to toner areas
5- print using xerox as your plate
When we do it, the ink adheres to the entire surface, and when we start to sponge it off, the image and paper starts to fall apart.....
HELP!!!
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Re: xerox transfer process- help please
Sun, May 13, 2007 - 11:11 PMI am going to have to try this myself. I know a couple people who do it and will ask them if I see them at the studio.
first I would try not doing step 4. Maybe less ink will transfer from the paper than from the toner. or vice versa.
second I would try wetting the paper before inking. maybe the toner will repell water and thus hold the oily ink better than the paper areas which absorb the water.
good luck.
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Re: xerox transfer process- help please
Tue, June 19, 2007 - 12:21 AMOne thing you need to know is that xerox don't work with all copiers! Some newer copiers don't work supposedly. It has to do with different toner chemistry. At SJSU we have a copier that does work. I've not done the process myself (we used it for lithography) but I know some people in class did use it successfully.
I also heard there is a way to do a xerox transfer with mineral spirits to transfer to etching plates.
The process you describe reminds me a bit of yet another process I heard about where you can transfer images from newspapers - not for printing, but just to get a transparent sheet from them: you use golden (don't know if it has to be golden) acrylic medium. You brush that on newspaper. let it dry. Then soak the paper in water and rub the paper off the resulting transparent sheet of medium. And you get a reversed image of the newspaper photo on the medium, which you then can use for funky art projects :)
Hope that's useful
Andreas
