Printing onto acetate and practice cyanotypes:

Unfortunately, the printing facilities that I would usually use are not available so I had to go back to using the old printer that we have in the studio. I was quite concerned about this because my previous experience with making my own acetates hasn't been good. They always seemed to come out patchy or the ink wouldn't dry properly and run, sometimes they would get caught in the printer and come out bent. So I wasn't feeling too optimistic about this. I decided to print each image one at a time and not consecutively because this usually clogs up the printer and I found that by doing this I was able to get about eight relatively good acetate images to use. The only thing I would say about these is that they don't look as professional as when I get them done by the print shop. The ink is slightly more thin which lets a bit more light through so I will have to do some test pieces to make sure that they work properly.