/diy/ - Do It Yourself

I hope this is dark enough, if not I'll be going through a fair few sheets of this stuff.

I tried washing the dust off this transparency, though it turns out that it isn't some sort of solid porous layer on one side that absorbs the ink, but a gel that does not play nicely with water. So I ruined one of my ~10 sheets, lesson learned. Still can't find a good way of telling the two sides apart (rubbing each side to see which one squeaks doesn't work) so I'm defaulting to licking a finger and dabbing it on the corner of the transparency to figure out if it has gel on it or not. And then I wasted a bunch of ink trying to get my print settings right (I have to print it not from inkscape or browser A, but browser B and it has to be set to landscape otherwise the scale will change, etc.) to get to this result. I'm getting a bit ahead of myself though, since I've yet to build myself a lightbox.