discussion Printing on tissue paper / Making your own curtains

[Richi72]

Here’s a little how to on printing paper tissue.

It’s not my idea, I found it on the interweb but gave it my own touch, so here we go

What do we need?

A inkjet printer.

a A4 or letter size piece of paper

Knife / scalpel

tissue paper or paper napkins

Masking material preferable in the paper size you would use.

First I drew 2 blocks on the paper 18cm x 13cm and cut them out

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Then I used the masking paper and put it on the paper.

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So now we have a piece of paper with sticky blocks in it.

Know we take a paper napkin and cut it about 1 cm bigger then the cutout blocks.

You will need to peel the layers of the napkins until one is left.

We can now put the cutout napkins on the sticky blocks.

So here is the tricky part depending on the way your printer pulls in the paper (best is from the top strait down and no bottom paper feed).

Not really sure if this will work with a bottom feeder can’t try that don’t have one.

Now we put the paper in the printer and print our design on the tissue paper.

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After you printed your design let it dry for a while, and then gently peel your tissue paper of and you have printed on tissue paper.

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Have a try and tell / show me / us how it worked out for you.

Cheers Richi

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[flyjoe180]

Interesting technique. Unlikely to use it myself but for the diorama builders this is a great method, thanks for posting it.

 

[Guest]

Yes indeed an very interesting technique thanks for sharing with us.

scott