Digital printing on glass

[Roderick Treece]

I just had a company print some art work digitally on glass.I going to try and mirror over the art to see how it comes out.Their HP printer they have does not print white so I will have to coat out one of the translucent art panels first.I was told to wait 48 hrs. to let the ink dry.I don't know what type of solvent they use but man did it stink up my van on the way back to the studio.

Will I go to Vinyl H_ll when I die for trying this?

Roderick

[Kelly Thorson]

Back it up with gold leaf and you'll be redeemed.

[Robare M. Novou]

Looks like you have some interesting testing coming up, wish you luck on it, and do let us know how it goes.

It must have been a Flat Bed Printer.

Do you know what the name of the printer equipment is?

Do you have to heat set it? or kiln fire it?

I've read where you brush color the glass with special paints and then bake the glass in an oven to set the paint.

But a mirror behind one of the panels so we can see how it might look silvered.

RMN

[Roderick Treece]

Robare,
It was a flat bed Hewlett Packard.It can print up to 4'x8'. I am going to leave one section alone,paint another section white, and maybe throw some gold on one to make Kelly happy and redeam myself. Then I will try and mirror it all. Gotta wait till tomorrow though.
This is a cold process

[Roderick Treece]

Well I got around to silvering the printed glass. I wasn't very optimistic because the day before I did a little cleaning test and the ink came off when it got wet.
I decided to not paint one white, truthfully I forgot to do it before hand so when I was ready to silver I just did it without painting any of the sections white.
The printing didn't stand up to the clean and washing phase of the process very well. Sections of it peeled right off.
I am thinking the best way to do would be to mask, silver,weed the mask then have the art work printed. That will be my next test.
The color came out great with just the mirroring behind it.By the way the printing mirrored on the back really well.

Roderick

[erik winkler]

Roderick,

I want to warn you here.
This is right up my alley, because I have done a lot of research in this topic: printing on glass.
There are some techniques, different inks and a lot of promisses. But if you ever buy something to resell to a customer.
Only, and I mean only get some which has been kilned before. This will burn the pigments right into the surface of the glass and will stay there for decades, maybe more like the stained glass windows in gothic Europian churches from medieval times.

And if you find one suplier... check if his/her printer has white.
No matter what you need today. I am certain you will be needing white also tomorrow.
After kilned dried/burned the smell will be gone also. But a real good system will not use hard solvents, because the kilning processdoes not need any solvents, since the kiln will melt the pigments right in the glass.