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Latah County, Idaho.
Fall, 1980.
The white substrate is ash from the volcanic eruption of Mount St. Helens on May 18, 1980 which covered much of eastern Washington and northern Idaho.
Reptilia
Squamata
Serpentes
Colubridae
Diadophis punctatus
This photo was used for the cover for the nongame wildlife leaflet for amphibians and reptiles by Craig Groves of the Idaho Department of Fish and Game in 1990.
57cms diameter on hand formed substrate. Glass squares, blobs, glass tiles.
So happy to have had the chance to finish this flower. It has been sitting waiting for sooo long.
Just have to concrete it into the bowl. Would look best with two more in a garden somewhere......now just have to sell that idea to a client.
This pic will have to do- it is clear in my pics, then gets blurry when flickr uploads- have tried 3 different ones... sorry.
12x12 wood substrate with with mosaic of stained glass, rhinestones,found objects. Crow sculpture of foam/concrete with stained glass
Wood substrate with foam/concrete hearts covered in mosaic of stained glass, milliefiori and mirror tile.
Collage fun with cereal box substrates, paint, rubber stamps, napkins, oil pastel crayons, rub-ons, and tea tags
Substrate: Watercolour paper 180gsm
Light sensitive anthotype dye: Ground Turmeric in water
Application: cotton disk
Opaque layer: Wisteria leaves.
Exposure time: 2days intermittent sunlight
Post exposure treatment: 2%(w/v) sodium bicarbonate
3D Sublimation 101
Dye sublimation, a digital printing process that uses heat to transfer dye to materials such as a plastic card, printer paper, poster paper, or fabric, is rapidly gaining market share due to the increasing availability of new and improved combinations of inks, media, hardware and software that have pushed the quality range of digital media much higher.
Dye sublimation printing can reproduce images on a variety of flexible and rigid substrates, which can endure the amount of heat, pressure and dwell time necessary for image transfer. With two primary areas of focus, including sublimation to textiles/soft fabrics as well as rigid substrates, dye sublimation enables the production of items such as point-of-sale applications, banners, custom flags, license plates, snowboards and promotional pieces.
New Applications for Dye Sublimation Printing: Driving Market Change
There are literally hundreds of different applications for dye sublimation, meaning plenty of profitable business opportunities for digital decoration. The primary limitation is that the surface must be composed of polymer fibers and able to withstand 400° F of temperature without melting. Provided those criteria are met, sublimation will create a premium full-color, photographic-quality image that will not crack, peel or wash away from the substrate. You can download our free Extensive Marketing Report.
2D vs 3D Sublimation
2D sublimation normally using heat press. The flat (flat platen) press is available as a clam-shell style or a swing-sway style. The clam-shell version opens and closes like a clam, where the bottom platen is stationery and the top platen moves up and down. The swing-away press opens by lifting up the top platen, but then will move sideways completely out of the way for ease of placement and removal of transferred products. It only can press flat substrates.
3D sublimation use vacuum heat press or oven, it can fully sublimate curved products using an air-forced vacuum, like phone cases, mugs, computer mouse, perfect for curved products that don’t work easily in flat heat presses.
Paper vs Film 3D Sublimation
As we mentioned the major priority of 3D sublimation heat press or oven is fully sublimate curved products, there are two types of 3D sublimation system in the market, using paper or film. However the output quality are huge different. Simply google 3d sublimation heat press, you will find tons of red and black color 3d sublimation heat presses which are made in China, selling around one thousand dollar. These machines use sublimation paper to wrap the substrate first, then using an air-forced vacuum to suck the thin silicon pad to wrap the paper which wrap on the substrate, however the sublimation paper is not soft, so if the substrate has round corner, then either the image can not be fully sublimated or paper crease is sublimated onto the substrate. We bought one of them and have been testing phone cases over 6 months. The conclusion is only can make iphone 4/5/5s cases which are straight corner, most of Samsung cases and iPhone 5C cases are all fail, because thoses cases are round corner. Even sophisticated operator will have 20% defective rate for iPone 5 and 90% defective rate for those round corner stye cases. Moreover, it only can make one case each cycle as the vacuum suction is not strong enough. Don’t be fool by the video that shown can make 4 even 6 cases each cycle, but it never be, truste me. Also the image color is little dull even printed on glossy cases and impresson of silicon pad also sublimated onto the surface if you look carefully.
Another 3D sublimation system using film, mostly call “3D Sublimation Oven“, just google “3D Sublimation Oven“, you will find most of these system selling by Europe company. Usually one case system pricing between $5000 to $8000 and 4 cases system pricing between $12,000 and $16,000 which are not include VAT and shipping cost. But the output quality will be completely different with the system using sublimation paper. The color is vivid and rich, image is fully sublimated onto the substrate no matter what curved shape of substrate. There is one important factor is labor, film system spend much less labor as it sublimate the printed film directly onto the blanks but paper system need to manually print the image on the sublimation paper, then cut and wrap it on the case, it spend couple mintes to make one case. If you are just selling 10 cases a day, it will be fine, but if you are selling 50 cases a day, you will feel frustrating. Simple formulars, you get what you paid.
Conclusion: The cheap paper system seems an amateur toy if compare with film system, it cost more labor and high defective rate. Film system is the one you need to run long term personalized products business, no matter output quality or production efficiency.
3D Sublimation System Comparison
On the right hand side, you may compare the output quality difference between paper and film system. Image is printed on iPhone 5C.
3D Sublimation Oven (Film)
Film system is designed to take the shape of any object that it is adhered to and to sublimate any kind of image onto the surface of that object. Image is Vivid. Save labor and productive.
3D Sublimation Press (Paper)
Color output is little dull compare using film and can not make round corner style substrate. High defective rate and cost more labor.
3D Sublimation Oven (Film)
3D Sublimation Press (Paper)
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randomly picked substrates, Sharpie pens, ephemera, postage, stickers. Hopefully these two will make it to their destinations, since both of the previous ones did not make it to either recipient!
Editor's note: great story we posted today about how a NASA light technology, originally developed for plant growth experiments in space, is being used to reduce the side effects of various medical treatments, including those for cancer, wounds, etc. You can read more about the technology here: www.nasa.gov/topics/nasalife/features/heals.html. I love success stories like this!
Special High Emissivity Aluminiferous Luminescent Substrate, or HEALS technology developed for NASA's commercial plant growth experiments in space is helping to treat cancer and save lives on Earth. NASA has partnered with Quantum Devices Inc. (QDI) of Barneveld Wis., to develop the WARP 75 light delivery system device for wound healing. A two-year clinical trial using the WARP 75 device on cancer patients undergoing bone marrow or stem cell transplants, concluded that there was a 96-percent chance that the improvement in pain relief of those in the high-risk patient group was the result of the HEALS treatment. The clinical trial was funded by NASA's Innovative Partnerships Program at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. The NASA program works with industry and commercial partners to spinoff space technology and adapt it for new, innovative applications.
Image credit: NASA/MSFC/David Higginbotham
View more images:
www.nasa.gov/topics/nasalife/features/heals_photos.html
Watch a video of HEALS in action:
www.nasa.gov/multimedia/videogallery/index.html?media_id=...
Full Journal here on UKAPS.org - ukaps.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=15952
Tank specs
Tank: ADA Cube Garden Mini M - 36x22x26cm / 5mm optiwhite glass
Hardscape: ADA Yamaya Rock, ADA Hornwood
Co2: Pressurised via Do!Aqua Music Glass - Mini 10D, Music Counter and ADA grey parts set
Lighting: ADA Mini-M - Solar 27W light
Filtration: Fluval 205 external to
Outlet - Do!Aqua Violet Glass mini MP-1 10D
Inlet - Do!Aqua Violet Glass mini MV-1 13D
Heating: None yet as its in a centrally heated room. I may add an inline heater in the winter
Substrate: ADA Power Sand Special topped with ADA Africana Powder - Penac P & W and tourmaline for good measure
Ferts per day: ADA Step 1 and Brighty K
Critters: Red Cherry Shrimp, fish undecided yet
plants to include - Ferns, tennelus, hairgrass, fissidens, mosses, Bolbitus and a carpet of Glosso
It is ZnO ball which floating the substrate. The ball was including ZnO nanorod and Zn core, which was confirm by FIB cutting section. Also the special structure have very good performance in the PV.
Courtesy of Feng LI
Image Details
Instrument used: Nova NanoSEM Family
Magnification: 4000
Horizontal Field Width: 10
Vacuum: 10-3Pa
Voltage: 15
Spot: 5
Working Distance: 5.6
Detector: SE