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Re: Images on kayaks - photocopying onto glass clo
By:Preston Seu
Date: 3/13/2000, 12:49 pm

The test bonding of photo copied glass cloth seems to work but I would caution that many photocopiers use silcone oil in their fusers. This might weaken the epoxy to glass bond. Testing is needed!

The toners in copiers are colored with pigments, usually carbon for black. These should be pretty lightfast. Some inkjet blacks are colored with pigments but many are dyes which have lightfastness problems. Inkjet colors are usually dye based and have lightness problems. Printers claiming archive colors may depend on an ink to media interaction for this lightfastness. Fiberglass cloth is not the designed media so lightfastness is not a given.

Kayak builders have the advantage of covering their graphics with epoxy and varnish. This may be enough protection from the ultraviolet light that fades a printers colors.

It's good to remember the old rule, "One test is worth a thousand opinions."

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Images on kayaks - photocopying onto glass cloth
Grant Goltz -- 3/10/2000, 5:08 pm
Re: Images on kayaks - a month too late for me
Don -- 3/15/2000, 7:17 pm
Re: Images on kayaks - a month too late for me
Grant Goltz -- 3/16/2000, 1:14 pm
Re: Images on kayaks - a month too late for me
Brian Wegener -- 3/16/2000, 10:14 am
Re: Images on kayaks - photocopying onto glass clo
Preston Seu -- 3/13/2000, 12:49 pm
Re: Images on kayaks - clarifications
Grant Goltz -- 3/13/2000, 10:43 pm
Re: Images on kayaks - liquid light
derbyshire -- 3/15/2000, 6:37 pm
Re: Images on kayaks - photocopying onto- veneer?
Dave Hagen -- 3/13/2000, 12:01 am
Re: Images on kayaks - photocopying onto- veneer?
Grant Goltz -- 3/13/2000, 11:21 am
Re: Epoxied it onto wood - worked
Grant Goltz -- 3/11/2000, 9:49 pm
Re: Images on kayaks - photocopying onto glass clo
Scotty -- 3/11/2000, 9:53 am
Re: Fabrics, etc. through machines
Grant Goltz -- 3/11/2000, 10:59 am
Re: Images on kayaks - photocopying onto glass clo
Chris in Cajun Country -- 3/10/2000, 5:36 pm
Re: photocopying onto glass cloth-PRECAUTIONS!
Grant Goltz -- 3/10/2000, 8:33 pm
Grant, It was one of those Fridays...
Chris in Cajun Country -- 3/10/2000, 9:56 pm
Re: Grant, It was one of those Fridays...
Tony -- 3/13/2000, 5:41 pm
Relieved!!
Grant Goltz -- 3/11/2000, 11:11 am
Re: Images on kayaks - photocopying onto glass clo
Don Price -- 3/10/2000, 6:40 pm