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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?
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.
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.
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.
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.