CMYK Enamel Painting

Is it possible to create a enamel painting with using only cmyk colors of enamels ?
There are transparent series of enamel colors and if i m not wrong it is possible to mix enamels with liquids.
Can too much fine grain powder be fired and get results ?

Best ,

Mustafa Umut Sarac

I know apug hates printers.
For your information , there are color and black ceramic toners for laser printers.
You print a color ceramic prinnt on to a special paper than when you fire it , paper vaporize and ceramic remains.
I am interested in producing wrist watch ceramic gears with this technology if it could withstand to stress.
Decal printing , ceramic toner are few search words.
And there is a good group at yahoo on enamels.
Other technique is to use silk screen and liquid or dry enamel powders to print your painting or whatever.
Enamel is a fast art and requires few minutes firing per color or all colors together.

Best ,

Mustafa Umut Sarac

It's not APUG hates anything. It's just not on topic.

And how is it not on topic? Just because you don't know jack about photo screen printing doesn't mean it's not on topic. 20 years ago I was a damned good photo screen printer, it was one of my majors while I studied at New England School of Photography (Thanks Alan Metnick).

Unfortunately Mustafa, not many people have kept up with this Alternative photo process, not many ever became technically accomplished with the degree of accuracy you are looking for. Somehow you need to hook up with someone involved in photo lithography in the semiconductor field who would give you access to the machinery possible to do what you want. Not likely in Turkey I suspect.

Seems you need to find a good, if not great, technical university that explores uses of ceramics in the industrial world. University of Colorado is one place to start, I think they have affiliations with the Coors ceramic company. Good luck.

tim in san jose

No I know about screen printing but he was talking about printing with a laser printer... which is digital printing which isn't on topic for APUG.

Akki14 said:

No I know about screen printing but he was talking about printing with a laser printer... which is digital printing which isn't on topic for APUG.

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Mustafa Umut Sarac said:

Other technique is to use silk screen and liquid or dry enamel powders to print your painting or whatever.
Enamel is a fast art and requires few minutes firing per color or all colors together.

Best ,

Mustafa Umut Sarac

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Looks like screen printing to me.

tim

k_jupiter said:

20 years ago I was a damned good photo screen printer, it was one of my majors while I studied at New England School of Photography (Thanks Alan Metnick).

Unfortunately Mustafa, not many people have kept up with this Alternative photo process

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I wouldn't call it an alternative process. The company I work for is using screen printed CMYK rear printed on textured polyester with an additional white print to create control panels with images on such as this one here: http://www.klix.com/klix/en-GB/Productsandsolutions/Vending-Machines/KLIX-450/
This is a vending machine with a control panel about 18" x 24" with a cloud pattern.


Steve.