Advice Needed please.......

[Gigi]

If you have or are using the transparencies for overhead projectors, why not take your design into Photoshop, or some other program and fill in the shapes with what ever colors you want, and print it out. Then you can put your cut image on top and then you can add what ever other accents you want to that. At least that was my first thought when I started to read this thread.

Geesh- why didn't we all think of that??!!?? Good one, Diane!

[Angel135612]

Pat, why not try sending one sheet through your laser printer and see how it works. I doubt if it would hurt your printer. Overhead projectors would get hot (I would think so anyway, haven't used one, but I think the light shining on it to project it would get the transparency hot if it were left there long enough) So I don't think the heat from a laser printer would hurt the transparency. I would think the only difference would be any type of coating that may be on it for the ink to be absorbed so as to not smear. I have some transparencies that are for copiers and laser printers, and from what I can gather on the box, the only difference is the coating that is used for the type of *ink* that would be put on it.

[Suzan]

But you need to be careful. The heat from a printer is different from a overhead. It could melt it and ruin your printer. That is from my techno husband, from when I wanted to do the same thing.

[pigtailpat]

Suzan - I wouldn't do it with these I have on hand, as they are for inkjets. Actually we got these transparencies for a church presentation years and years ago, and when I had the inkjet printer, it worked pretty well. You have to set the print driver properly, you're right that if you don't set the driver right, you will have a big mess inside the printer! So careful everyone.

It is raining like wild here, so I am not going to store. I will probably just make do with what I have and TRY hard to get this done - it will have to be all in one color, or, I can try hard to airbrush with the copics and hope I mask well enough. If I cannot touch this project today, and have enough time tomorrow to go to the store - I might do the gallery glass paints. The cooking for today is ALOT! I am only finished with phase 1 and still have to do the main part....

Pat