Have you ever heard of, or even used this stuff before? It's a shiny sheet of colour that you put ontop of a photocopied image then apply heat. In the 80s of course there would have been heated rollers for this, but I made do with an iron. Where there's carbon, the colour will stick. Isn't it great?
I am now the happy owner of a whole pile of it that was going to be thrown away at uni. The colours are fab, and now I just need to think of an interesting way to use it. Any ideas? I think I need to experiment with getting a really dark photocopy as these were copies of quick pencil drawings, and the colour hasn't fully stuck. I like the texture though.
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That looks excellent... Love it! I looks like lots of fun too :)
I like the rough texture, remeinds me of letraset when it was a bit old and falling apart! The colours are fab too x
Aha, well, funny you should say that as on the only intact packet in the pile, the packaging says Pantone by Letraset for use in Omnicrom machines. So it's the same people!
Wow, what a find - great colours, and the texture on the letter a looks really good. It would look stunning enlarged as an A4 or A3 print I think.
What brilliant stuff, I like that you can see the carbon below still- broken texture it shows process.
Actually I'm loving the texture and the letters and those colours!
Just keep playing Anna - I have heard of it but never had the chance to use it - kinda looks bit screen print-y in a way. x
I have some of this! I love it.
Oh Omnicrom! I love that stuff but haven't had the chance to use it since my very early college years... is it still in production?
As far as I can remember the best way to get a flat tranfer was with a solid black photocopy and use the heated rollers to do the transfer... my ironing attempts always came our patchy because the film would wrinkle. A heat press might work too?
I'm sure with a wee bit of experimenting you'll come up with some fab ideas... :)
Emma, x
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