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I have been watching some videos and tutorials on how to make your own rub ons. Do you have to make them and use right away or can you print an entire sheet and save for future use? My guess is make and use as you go. Anyone out there who has done this to share their experience and wisdom?
There are various ways of doing this so the answer might depend a bit on what method you've been looking at. The absolute simplest way (print mirror image with an inkjet printer on the shiny side of a transparency) is definitely a "make and use" technique - the ink stays wet so you can't store these without smudging them.
Some people use specialist papers and some of those may be ones you can store but I have no experience of those, I'm afraid.
Thanks Joanne. I am looking at using my inkjet printer and transparencies. I will just make and use as I go then. I am excited for this as I live 55 miles from the closest scrapbook store and I really did not find letter books that I wanted. Thanks for helping confirm what I was thinking.
It's a really useful technique as you can have any wording you want in any font on your comupter! You can choose colours, too.
You might want to do a little bit of experimenting before you do it for real. Because of the way it works, you'll never get a really fantastically crisp result and if your font is too small or has really thin detail lines, you may not get a good transfer. A bit of experimenting will help you to get to grips with good font choices and the sort of finish you're likely to get.
Forgot to say - experimentation comes cheap with this technique! As long as you clean your transparency well, you can use it again so experimenting doesn't "waste" anything except the paper you rub your transfer onto.
... and the printer ink, which can be quite expensive, too...
It can, you're quite right but it's far more noticeable when you're printing photos or other pictures - ink consumption on text seems much more resonable somehow!
I read somewhere that Printer Ink is the most expensive commodity on the planet, by volume.
'The root of the problem lies with the size of the sponge holding the ink within the cartridge. Despite many cartridges looking the same on the outside, the sponge inside has been reduced significantly and now holds less ink. As a result consumers are paying more for printing ink per millilitre than the equivalent volume of vintage champagne or Chanel No.5.'
We bought a CIS system for our printer a long time ago, which massively reduces the cost of printing, as long as you buy good quality inks there is no printing issue,and now when a printer needs replacing, whether or not it is CIS compatible is one of the things we look for. It does ionvalidate the warranty if you put it on a new printer, but as long as its a year old, there is only a gain.
I've only ever been able to get them to work if I print on transparencies (or acetate) and then let them sit for about 10 minutes. You want the ink to dry a little, but still remain tacky so that it sticks to the paper. Here is one I did quite some time ago. I wanted this specific word art for my layout: Grandmothers by cat_woman - Cards and Paper Crafts at Splitcoaststampers
Making Own Rub Ons
