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So I’ve been trying to figure out how to skip the tracing bit in the stencil process. Somebody on here mentioned thermal printers a while back. After doing some digging I found out that all the main brands of inkjet printers use thermal. So what I’m wondering is how exactly does that work? Can I simply scan my drawing, invert the image, then print on regular spirit master paper? Does it work on any carbon paper?
If anyone does it this way let me know how it works, so far I’ve been drawing my stuff holding against a window tracing it on the reverse side, then tracing the reverse of my drawing onto the stencil paper. I’d like to remove all the hassle if its possible
edit: I should mention that I have an inkjet printer already just need to get some ink for it as its been sitting for a while and the ink has dried up.
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From my understanding, most the main brands of printers use Thermal Inkjet, including mine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inkjet_printing#Drop-on-demand
I still don’t know if it will work though. But its worth a try
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if you’re printing directly on the sheet make sure you have enough stencil paper for hte size of hte design, and print it on the side of a piece of printer paper that is going otbe priunted on. remove the back yellow sheet, and remove the onion protective sheet. you now have only carbon, and stencil. tape all four sides with masking tape to the paper with the carbon UP so it prints on the carbon. then print your flipped design directly over the carbon. since you’re printing on the carbon which is backwards, your stencil will be forwards :3Lemme know how it works
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I did it just the way you said. Except it wouldn’t transfer the carbon to the sheet. But since I printed on the shiny side of the carbon sheet I was able to apply it directly to my chest. The carbon didn’t transfer, the printer ink did. Kind of like if you’ve ever stuck some scotch tape to something and it pulled the pencil markings off.
Whats cool about that though, is that I can do it in multiple colors, not just carbon blue. I may have stumbled onto a whole new method.. I’m going to see if it works with parchment paper taped to a regular sheet of printer paper.
I’m sure you’ll have to move quickly though as the ink will dry
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