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More inkjet on gold-leaf printing…….part II

Posted on December 29, 2011 by

Some more info about my adventures printing on metal leaf.Previously I had two problems when printing on metal leaf. First there were the pizza wheel tracks, and secondly I was occasionally getting an ever so slight dark smudge on the … Continue reading →

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Inkjet on Gold Leaf printing…two scans

Posted on December 17, 2011 by

Well, scanning these two images almost worked. I color and contrast corrected them heavily, but still can not really get the feel of the gold foil, and how it reflects the light, into the scan.So, for the time being, this … Continue reading →

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Inkjet on Gold Leaf printing…almost perfect

Posted on December 16, 2011 by

The mat board is ready for printing with its coats of acrylic paint, adhesive size, gold leaf, and finally a coat of InkAid on it.Here it is coming out of the front port of the Epson R2400 printer – looking … Continue reading →

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Inkjet on Gold Leaf printing – some progress

Posted on December 13, 2011 by

I am making some progress in eliminating the ‘pizza’ wheel tracks on my gold leaf prints.Here is what I did. Firstly I used some 8×10 white mat board and prepped it with the gold leaf. I used the mat board … Continue reading →

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Printing on Gold Leaf….again

Posted on November 30, 2011 by

Printing some of my photographs on gold or silver [actually just metal] leaf is something I do from time to time, but have never gotten around to pursuing it enough to print a body of work that way. What I … Continue reading →

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Printing on Gold & Silver Leaf

Posted on May 6, 2009 by

Here are three more digital prints on gold and silver leaf.  Photographing these so they truly reproduce the way the prints look, is something I have not been able to pull off.  These are fairly close, but I feel they … Continue reading →

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‘Pizza wheels’ be darn

Posted on April 24, 2009 by

I just finished printing this image on a 13×20 inch sheet of watercolor paper on which the image area was gold leafed – perhaps I should have waited for the thing to dry just a bit more before I started … Continue reading →

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