Last night, I was helping out someone printing their relief print (specifically a woodcut)
and I totally started to space out (I was basically being the "clean hands" person) - and realized - that there's probably no reason why the non-toxic process we use to print on shirts wouldn't also work on aluminum plates for doing litho printing
At Iowa - as far as straight transfers go... we're really only taught how to do them using Hancolite (might be misspelling that)... which is crazy toxic, smells horrible, and isn't too incredibly reliable. In the past, we've asked professors/ grad students if there were other options, and we've always been told no.
But our non-toxic process essentially does the same thing as the hancolite - forcing the toner from one surface to another.
So looks like I'm going to be testing it out tonight...
(Oh and I've started compiling the audio bits for the show on May 1st... it might just be awesome.)
[Edit]
here's a little preview of a shirt we're going to be printing tonight - hopefully, it'll be a full-front print... Which - yea, are a bitch to do... but I always think they look cooler than just in the middle.
Although, having said that - this probably will be the only full-front one we'll do tonight... I have a few other designs that just go up from the bottom to about chest high.
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