There are 4 messages in this issue.

Topics in today's digest:

      1. Re: Digest Number 38
           From: "Bloch Studio" <artglass@blochstudio.com>
      2. Re: Digest Number 37
           From: "Roderick J. Geis" <Geis@rayzist.com>
      3. Photos to Resist.
           From: "Rick majewski" <creative@mail.telepac.pt>
      4. Re: Digest Number 37
           From: REgina Nickels <starcreations@att.net>


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Message: 1
   Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 08:48:01 -0800
   From: "Bloch Studio" <artglass@blochstudio.com>
Subject: Re: Digest Number 38

Does anyone have any tips for applying a resist all the way around the top
two inches
of a glass which tapers from wide at the top to narrow at the bottom?

Susan

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Message: 2
   Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 08:28:55 -0800
   From: "Roderick J. Geis" <Geis@rayzist.com>
Subject: Re: Digest Number 37

Donna,

When printing a line screen for photo resist you should use 
LaserFilm or a similar product rather than vellum.  LaserFilm allows 
a greater transmission of UV light than vellum, and holds laser 
toner better.  There is an article in the November 98 issue of the 
Sancarving Quarterly:
http://www.rayzist.com/SQ/SQ-2-2.htm#Tips  

For price information:
http://www.rayzist.com/Prices/prices-products.htm#Supplies 

Perhaps some other member of the group can give you alternate 
sources for a similar laser printer film products.

If you plan to make more than a few of the same photo you may 
want to consider the best method for this type of work... have your 
line screen photo printed digitally on an image setter.  Local print 
houses should be able to do this for you.

-Roderick


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Message: 3
   Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 19:14:13 -0800
   From: "Rick majewski" <creative@mail.telepac.pt>
Subject: Photos to Resist.

Hi Donna
Extremely small dots are hard to process and blast in my experience.
(Black and white line art is what I use,very fine in some cases
cleaned up, a lot depends on the original art, its size etc, 
scaned in at 600dpi)
Now when it comes to creating a suitable/usable B/W acetate
laser print from a "photograph" it's more difficult, I know this can
be done, the funeral trade use photos to this end on stone...I seem to
remember they image processed it in photo shop (or other) and
applied either a cross-hatch or a covert to line art.
Maybe some other glass worker on this list has successfully
coverted photos for use with resist.
I would imagine Roderick or Art at Rayzist have (if you're there,hi Art!)
I suggest you keep image processing till you get what you want, as
you know your laser acetate is the most impotant, and forget
any greyscales. Hope this helps, keep trying.
Rick Blaster.


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Message: 4
   Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 12:50:09 -0700
   From: REgina Nickels <starcreations@att.net>
Subject: Re: Digest Number 37

Roderick,

WE do use the LaserFilm from Rayzist. We also use the information
provided for to us that you had, regarding the Adobe PhotoShop 5.5. What
is we show dogs and want to put show show pictures on different products
for the show people. That is buying using the Photo Resist procedures.
We seem to run into the same thing over and over. We have tweaked this
way and that way and still seem to run into the same problem. it seems
as though the dots, for the dot gain when we have gone through the whole
process that when we blast, it just doesn't come out the way it should
and we have seen other people have on theirs. 

First we scan, do the Adobe thing, print on a laser printer, which by
the way does print very dark on the dots, process like the instructions
say with LaserFilm, wash etc., put it on the glass, blast at a low
pressure and than look. What we see is, where the dots were not dark
enough through the process, tearing of the resist, etc. And i guess the
main question is, for those who do photo Rayzist, what process do yo go
through. There has to be a solution and we have gone back to drawing
block, that hair is turning gray, literally. LOL

if anyone has a solution or way that has worked good for them, you can
write back to the list, write us privately, or call us at (303) 799-1960
and ask for Donna or Regina and we will call you back and use our own
dime (nickel), or write us a number and time to call you. Soon we will
be looking like rabid dogs if we don't get this down as we have a
deadline of Feb. 9th and have a lot of product to do for shows. 

Thanks,

REgina starcreations@att.net
Donna starc2@att.net

"Roderick J. Geis" wrote:
> 
> From: "Roderick J. Geis" <Geis@rayzist.com>
> 
> Donna,
> 
> When printing a line screen for photo resist you should use
> LaserFilm or a similar product rather than vellum.  LaserFilm allows
> a greater transmission of UV light than vellum, and holds laser
> toner better.  There is an article in the November 98 issue of the
> Sancarving Quarterly:
> http://www.rayzist.com/SQ/SQ-2-2.htm#Tips
> 
> For price information:
> http://www.rayzist.com/Prices/prices-products.htm#Supplies
> 
> Perhaps some other member of the group can give you alternate
> sources for a similar laser printer film products.
> 
> If you plan to make more than a few of the same photo you may
> want to consider the best method for this type of work... have your
> line screen photo printed digitally on an image setter.  Local print
> houses should be able to do this for you.
> 
> -Roderick