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12 October 2011

This Is Kinda Cool I just may go out and try it
That IS cool
posted by The Whelk 12 October | 12:18
oooh, I'm doing this.
posted by mygothlaundry 12 October | 12:53
I'm trying to imagine how it would scale to cover a whole wall......
posted by The Whelk 12 October | 13:07
Yeah, no "kinda" about the coolness factor. And I really like how she did the video - fun!
posted by deborah 12 October | 15:03
Ooh - I might have to try it too. Your picture would come out backward, right? So should you reverse it when printing so that it flips back over when it transfers to the wood? Or am I confused?
posted by Cashman 12 October | 15:47
Would this work with both a laser and an inkjet printer? I have a good A3 colour laser printer and lots of blank walls ...

I don't know what the two bottles of goop are that she applied and I wonder what other surfaces this could be applied to? I'm particularly wondering if it could be applied directly to a painted wall.
posted by dg 12 October | 17:05
That is neat but I have no open spots on my walls. Hmmm.

cashman: aren't pictures backwards from real life or is that just mirrors?

dg: it looks like from the comments, laser would work but not ink jet. Mod Podge (the 2nd goop) dries clear so I expect she just used it to seal the ink. The other stuff is this and since it's painting goop, it doesn't say what it could be used with. It looks like people also do this on canvas so maybe a wall would work. Interestingly the canvas link used an ink jet printer so maybe it would work.
posted by bluesapphires 12 October | 17:20
Usually, anything printed with an inkjet runs if you get it wet, though? Or is it that the paper isn't waterproof, making the ink run somehow?
posted by dg 12 October | 18:01
Neat!
posted by Glinn 12 October | 19:45
My experience has been ink jet + water = smeared ink. So I'm not sure how it worked with the canvas. Would you be able to rub waterproof paper off like that? It seems like using a copy machine or laser printer would be the less error prone way to go.
posted by bluesapphires 12 October | 19:51
For those asking about ink types, etc. for once the YouTube comments are helpful. It seems a laser printer with regular printer paper is the way to go.
posted by deborah 13 October | 00:31
Postmodernism || I've been posting it everywhere else so why not here

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