Sub Codex wrote:

Hi Angela. I think you see what is going on here with my situation. You
pretty well sum it up when you wrote:

...you'll have...problems...if you were planning
on doing anything terribly sophisticated.

I am in way over my head here. I don't have your knowledge of the
software you mentioned and even if I did I couldn't use it without a
computer. Thank you for your input. I hope I'm not a dissapointment.
8•)

You know, you can probably do this at a public library. They usually
charge something, not much, I think it's 10 or 20 cents here, for making
a xerox. Of course, you'd have to bring your own transparency film, and
I'd bring it still in the box so that they can see that it is indeed
transparency film for a copy machine. You can't run inkjet transparency
film through a copy machine, it'll melt and damage the copier.


The photo silk screen: I planned to use a poured bichromate emulsion. If
I remember right from my reading this would work with a "positive"
transparency. The transparency image in this case hopefully coming from
an inkjet print.

If you're really gung-ho on the idea of using an inkjet transparency,
check and see if the library has a flatbed scanner for public use. You
can scan the image there. Windows comes with some kind of imaging app
built in, can't remember the name of it now, not Paint, it's more
sophisticated than that, designed for photographic images. Anyway, you
can greyscale the scan in it and then, again for not much, make a
printout onto your own transparency film. If there's an image online
that you were planning on using, just bring the URL to it with you,
download at the library and print to transparency film.

To create a tempratype, if that was next on your list of things to try,
you're going to have to have access to a real computer with software.
Doing a tempratype isn't much different in theory than four color
process printing done in print shops. You split the image into CMY,
these are greyscale images. You'd print these to transparency film with
registration marks. Each transparency gets exposed using emulsion that
is dyed the same color, the cyan channel transparency would be used with
cyan emulsion, etc.

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