Lazertran Products

Lazertran Silk

A simple iron on transfer for silk giving fantastic detail. It will not stiffen the silk around the image, allowing the cloth to flow naturally. Can also be used to put images on polymer clay, Fimo, Sculpy, etc and metal foil. There is not a temperature issue with Lazertran Silk as it does not have a decal and can be used in a laser printer.
Here is a link to a demo apply Lazertran Silk to Polymer Clay..
Silk demon onto Polymer clay

Lazertran Silk

To purchase any of our Lazertran papers or our workshop video/CD please visit either our UK Or USA Lazertran shops. You will also find more information in the 'How to Order' section.

How to use Lazertran Silk

Lazertran Silk is a paper designed to be used with any toner based printer as heat is not an issue. It is for use with closely woven silk or satin, ribbons, metal foil, Polymer Clay and by painting any cloth with an acrylic medium, allow to dry then iron on, a well fixed washable finish can be achieved. For use with any toner based colour photocopiers.

Using Lazertran Silk on silk

Print image onto Lazertran Silk using a toner based printer in reverse or mirror on the shiny side.

  1. Iron silk flat. Habutai Silk works really well
  2. Lay silk over your image and iron until the silk is stuck to the image. Use a hot iron
  3. Place the silk in clean water, paper side down and leave until the paper falls off
  4. Lift the silk carefully from the water and lay face down onto a cloth. Allow the iron to cool and iron gently from the back to dry the silk
  5. When dry return the iron to hot, turn the silk over and place a sheet of baking paper/parchment, not waxed or old fashioned greaseproof, over the image
  6. Iron through the paper then allow to cool. Then peel off. This method produces a beautiful result for surface pattern. The silk can be rinsed in warm water but will not take a vigorous wash

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To iron to any cloth

Use our new Inkjet textile transfer papers

Transfer an image to polymer clay

  1. Copy your image in reverse onto a sheet of Lazertran Silk
  2. Put the image face on the clay and burnish to make sure of good contact and leave for 30 minutes
  3. Drop the clay with the image attached into a bath of water and leave for 2 minutes. Then swish the water with your hand until the backing paper floats
  4. Remove the clay from the water and allow to dry for 1 hour
  5. The shape and bake as per manufacturers instructions

Lazertran Silk as an etch resist

This is a simpler way to transfer toners to a plate to act as an acid resist although fine tones may be lost.

  1. Copy your image in black and negative, setting the toner density to high, onto a sheet of Lazertran Silk paper
  2. Degrease the plate
  3. Cut the image to the size of the plate
  4. Put the plate onto a hot plate about 180c then place the image face down onto the plate and rub flat with a tissue until the image is well stuck to the plate. Immediately immerse the plate in a bath of hot water and wait until the backing sheet floats off
  5. Allow to dry and when dry place the plate back onto the hot plate to make sure all the toners are properly adhered

You are now ready to etch. An aqua tint may be applied. Before printing remove toners with solvents, or heat until melted and wipe off with rag and white spirits.

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Lazertran Silk with photo spray mount for heavier cloth, voile, open weave silks and cloth

Lazertran Silk can be applied to all kinds of surfaces using 3M Permanent Photo Mount Spray.

  1. Have your image printed in reverse or mirror
  2. Cut image to size
  3. Apply spray mount onto the image then stick down onto surface
  4. You can iron through the backing sheet if applying to cloth to make sure of good adhesion
  5. Wet backing sheet and peel off
  6. Leave to dry overnight

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