I spoke to the company producing Ceramic decals from my Photoshop files yesterday, paid for the two A3's ordered. They said they would be posted out yesterday, but had not arrived this morning. I am hopeful it will arrive tomorrow as I really need to crack on with this, and I really am hopeful the idea will work. Otherwise its back to the drawing board or the Mac.
I had a kiln booked at college in anticipation of the decals being with me, but as they were not I cut up some Bullseye glass and assembled a small piece and also cut up some previously fired ceramic decals. They were produced via the Lazer cutter at college a couple of weeks ago. I had some black and white arabic text in an Illustrator file which is then loaded into the lazer cutter and assigned commands (i.e. engrave, cut-through etc). The Ceramic Decal paper is placed on the lazer cutter bed and once the position is set on the key pad off it goes burning its way through. The end result was arabic lettering as a waterslide decal, which was fused onto float glass. The problem with the ceramic decal paper basically is the colours (the ones I used anyway) are very dull. I am interested to see if the resulting fused glass, now cut-up and placed in two layer pieces, will change colour as it fuses overnight in the kiln. Will see all tomorrow!
I had a kiln booked at college in anticipation of the decals being with me, but as they were not I cut up some Bullseye glass and assembled a small piece and also cut up some previously fired ceramic decals. They were produced via the Lazer cutter at college a couple of weeks ago. I had some black and white arabic text in an Illustrator file which is then loaded into the lazer cutter and assigned commands (i.e. engrave, cut-through etc). The Ceramic Decal paper is placed on the lazer cutter bed and once the position is set on the key pad off it goes burning its way through. The end result was arabic lettering as a waterslide decal, which was fused onto float glass. The problem with the ceramic decal paper basically is the colours (the ones I used anyway) are very dull. I am interested to see if the resulting fused glass, now cut-up and placed in two layer pieces, will change colour as it fuses overnight in the kiln. Will see all tomorrow!
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