In fact there was once a tricolor carbon printing process in which
cyan, magenta and yellow tissues on plastic were exposed from the
back and then mounted together to form the final image. It was called
Belcolor and was used in the 1940s. Later a striping material was
marketed which allowed the part reliefs to be transferred to paper.
Sandy
>On May 2, 2006, at 8:43 AM, Katharine Thayer wrote:
>>
>>Of course these wouldn't be presented like paper prints; that
>>would defeat the purpose, as you say. What baffles me is why you
>>would have supposed that anyone would do this. My idea is to
>>sandwich them between two pieces of glass with a frame that can be
>>seen from both sides, wood that holds the glass securely and
>>provides a frame. and then hang them between pedestals so that
>>people can walk around them. Kind of the way stained glass pieces
>>are displayed.
>
>Ooh, I just thought of an idea. I think we've decided that you
>can't do more than one coat this way, but maybe you could do
>tricolor by exposing each color layer on a separate transparency,
>and then sandwiching them together.
>Katharine
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