Clear inkjet media?

[Paul Verizzo]

I'm sure I will smack my forehead when you answer my question for its obviousness.

Nevertheless, I will.

What clear inkjet media is there? As one would use in digital negatives. Although I'm wanting to explore digital positives mounted to acrylic. I had a Kodak paper sample guide of papers available in the 1950's? and there was one that was translucent and printed on both sides. Just that few thousandths of an inch of displacement made the image sort of alive. Especially as you moved your head. I'd like to do that with much thicker acrylic.

 

[Bronson Dugnutt]

Suitable mylar sheets are mostly transparent, typically with only one side for receiving ink. Vellum style paper is more opaque but still translucent and more easily prints on both sides but tends to curl. I prefer vellum for alt process digital negatives especially if using a cold press watercolor paper where 'sharpness' is a tertiary consideration.

Inkjet printing onto mylar is quite a fickle process and will highlight minor misalignments in your print head. It will take a LOT of ink to produce something that mimics a film positive. Maybe pigment-based inks are better in this regard?

Transparent vinyl is another option and most are already adhesive on one side.

 

[MattKing]

Pictorico transparency film is used by a lot of people.

 

[sasah zib]

and
https://artofplatinum.wordpress.com/2013/02/18/permajet-film-new-forumulation-vs-pictorico-film/

Makers:

MItsubishi Imaging (MPM), Inc. :: Graphic Arts — Digital Imaging — Pictorico — Transparent Film

www.mitsubishiimaging.com

https://www.fixxons.com/


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Richard Boutwell, originally from Joshua Tree, California, is a photographer and printmaker based near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

In 2002, Boutwell relocated to Bucks County, Pennsylvania to enter an intensive apprenticeship with the photographers Michael A. Smith and Paula Chamlee. He worked as their assistant in the field, studio, and darkroom until 2008. He then became their full-time printer and ran the scanning and digital studio at their photography book publishing company, Lodima Press, until 2015.