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When you print your digital image, can you color it in with pencils and use blender pen? Or does the black printer ink bleed whe you use the blender pen? Thanks for the input
You will need to heat set your images after it comes off of the printer. You may see slight bleeding if you accidentally go over the lines or on a solid spot on the image. I have only used regular printer ink and have had no major problems with smearing. There are many ways to color in your digital image:
- I've used SU inks and an aquapainter brush to color in my images and you have to heat in between colors so that it doesn't ruin your image and your paper (make sure the brush isn't too wet either). Of course, stay away from the lines as possible to avoid smearing.
- I just acquired prismacolor pencils and have been solely using these for coloring and I can't be happier with the results. I use baby oil and stumps to blend in the colors. I've never used a blender pen but I am sure it will achieve the same results as when you are using a blending stump. Oftentimes, if I do get a little smearing, I just use more color to hide the smear and blend OR use my special eraser to erase a smidge if it is outside of the image.
- Some folks have used Bic-It markers or Sharpies as opposed to Copics since Copics can get pricey. I am not very good at blending with markers yet so I am sticking with prismacolor pencils.
- You can print off the image on watercolor paper and use watercolor pencils or crayons to color in the image.
One thing to remember is to heat set the image. If you don't want to bother with heat setting, some folks have had much success using photo printer ink. OR you can purchase some MicroGlaze (a pasty substance you rub over your image to keep it from smearing). Mel from Mel Stampz swears by this stuff.
I found heat setting didn't work for me - I spray them lightly with a coat of Krylon Preserve It (I let it dry for about an hour) and have had no problems at all.
I use a Dell inkjet printer & I color with Copics. Here's what I do with pretty good results. Print on the photo setting and allow to dry overnight. I have done a few things where I've just left it dry a little while and it's okay, but the overnight works best. I try to put a bunch of images on one sheet of cardstock when I'm printing, so I do have a bunch in a folder that are all ready to be colored.
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When you print your digital image, can you color it in with pencils and use blender pen? Or does the black printer ink bleed whe you use the blender pen? Thanks for the input
I found this to be excellent. You spray over the image once printed and it makes it water tight and you can use any medium on it.
When you print your digital image, can you color it in with pencils and use blender pen? Or does the black printer ink bleed whe you use the blender pen? Thanks for the input
I use Georgia Pacific card stock from Wal Mart, and I don't have to heat set, or anything else. I use my SU markers, inks with blender pens, and it all comes out great.
My ink runs like hell, i have to use Ghiant too. I watercolour my images and i've tried everything from heat setting to hairspray none of which worked! So i had to buy Ghiant it's brill!
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Has anyone tried using pigment ink cartridges for your printers, I believe its the best type to use when printing digital images when you want to colour them. It is more expensive to buy them than the normal dye based compatible ink cartridges but is still far cheaper than the manufacturers cartridges. check out this website and take a look. The link below takes to the particular printer that I have but you can check out for your printer model.
My printer uses pigment ink, it still seems to smear with water or blending pen / mineral spirits.
This is what the website says about the pigment ink, I don't understand if you have pigment ink that it runs.
Pigment based inks are generally stronger in the following areas compared to dye based ones:
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Water fast on most paper media (dye based inks start to run when wetted if not printed on specially coated paper ie photo paper )
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Fast drying (up to 100 times faster compared to dye based inks)
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Non fading colours ( often many many decades before any noticeable difference on suitable media rather than many many years before any noticeable difference with dye )
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