Printing for wood transfer

[Wolves]

any ideas?

I know this will be near impossible. I have a friend and she has asked me about photos on wood. Her parents had it done in the Philippines.

I'm thinking this is a development technique, its a full color photo on a sheet of wood.

But its gotten me curious what I can do, closest I have come with experimenting is a faded image, I printed an image onto wax paper then pressed it onto the wood.

I'm thinking there must be a proper wood that would take the image well, and a paper that will release the ink, but also I'm thinking of what I can spray on the wood then apply the image, so the ink takes to it better when its peeled off.

here is what my experimenting with wax paper got.

[mikefellh]

Originally Posted by Wolves

any ideas?

I know this will be near impossible. I have a friend and she has asked me about photos on wood. Her parents had it done in the Philippines.

If her parents had done it, why doesn't she ask them and then tell you how to do it.

Personally I'd try a t-shirt transfer material.

[Wolves]

I have, they dunno it was long time ago and why she is asking me...

Anyway I'm thinking it had to be be some type of development with chemicals or something back then to do it. I'm now curious how to get similar with whats available today. curious if anyone is familiar with the art or tried also.

shirt transfers would work, but it wouldn't show the wood grain through the image.

[zts]

Wolves, check:

http://www.lazertran.com./techniques/wooden_boxes.htm

and see if something like that could help you.

[Wolves]

zts that is perfect, thank you =)

[Snibbo]

Originally Posted by zts

http://www.lazertran.com./techniques/wooden_boxes.htm

Thanks for the tip, ZTS. This is a very interesting technique.

[John Perriment]

Thanks ZTS, I'm sure this is a technique that will be of interest to many of us. It never ceases to amaze me how much knowledge the combined membership of this forum has. It seems that whatever you want to know, no matter how specialised or obscure, all you have to do is ask!

[thestickman]

Seeing this thread dragged up my memory of Lazertran, but I see its been mentioned already. I haven't got around to trying it as it has always been a low priority but I wanted it for the same reason as you. Did you try it? How were the results if so. I would be really interested in how you got on.
Cheers,
Phil