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Craft artist needs a printers advice.

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alpha - 31 May 2005 16:34 GMT
Hello, i have a bit of a problem which i was hoping i might find a
solution to on this group. I need to make large scale stencils which
are to be placed on top of a photoresist material. The stencil material
must be transparent and allow uv light wave lenghths to pass through
it. The designs i want to put on these transparences must be in a very
dence black ink. The ink must be impenatrable to light. The scale of
these stencils i want to produce is anything from half a square metre
and up to multiple square metres. I want to take an image from a
computer file and blow it up to much larger scales onto this
transparent stencil without loosing too much detail. tracing designs by
hand is far too time consuming and spending 50, 000 pounds on a big
print machine is not anything like in my league. If anyone knows of an
alternative manual way this can be done without buying a giant print
machine i would really apreciate the info. Would also like to hear from
anyone who can tell me the cheapest light proof black ink and possibly
where i can obtain some.

Unfortunatly any solution will have to cost penuts as i have no money
to invest maybe a couple of hundred quid maximum for materials to
experiment with.

hoping for advice.............A
Peter Chant - 31 May 2005 22:16 GMT
> Unfortunatly any solution will have to cost penuts as i have no money
> to invest maybe a couple of hundred quid maximum for materials to
> experiment with.
>
> hoping for advice.............A

Not that I am best qualified to answer.  If you only wanted to go to A4
laser transparency material through a laser printer might work.  I know you
used to be able to get special transparency material for ink jets but I
don't know if that would go any larger.

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Stewy - 05 Jun 2005 09:03 GMT
> > Unfortunatly any solution will have to cost penuts as i have no money
> > to invest maybe a couple of hundred quid maximum for materials to
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> used to be able to get special transparency material for ink jets but I
> don't know if that would go any larger.

Did you know that True Type fonts are actually vector graphics and are
scalable up to around 3500 points?
Gregory Blank - 05 Jun 2005 13:28 GMT
> Did you know that True Type fonts are actually vector graphics and are
> scalable up to around 3500 points?

Ok but How can I do that? Illustrator?

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Peter Chant - 05 Jun 2005 17:01 GMT
> Did you know that True Type fonts are actually vector graphics and are
> scalable up to around 3500 points?

Regardling going larger I was referring to the transparency materials and
suitable printers probally being smaller than the OP wanted.

Scalable fonts have been around for years, at least 12 I would imagine.

Pete

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RSD99 - 06 Jun 2005 00:51 GMT
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Scalable fonts have been around for years, at least 12 I would imagine.
..."

EARLY 1980's ... Xerox PARC. That's over twenty years.

> > Did you know that True Type fonts are actually vector graphics and are
> > scalable up to around 3500 points?
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