Kim Jolley kimjolley@hotmail.com
Don't be afraid of the Lazertran, it is a wonderful product. I have used the regular Lazertran with success. Not much of a learning curve to just apply it to slick surfaces or fabric, the turpentine method isanother story...I taught a project to a class of stampers with no Lazertran experience. Each had perfect results with the transfers. When I'm going to make copies to Lazertran, this is what I do to use up every little space on the sheet: I print, stamp or clip the images, words, etc that I want to use. Then I trim them very close and using a glue stick arrange them on another piece of paper the same size as the Lazertran. You can put them right next to each other that way and pretty much fill up the entire page with not much waste. (keeping in mind there are print margins of about 1 inch on most copiers I've used) If in doubt about the print margin, I just fill that space up with extra words I might need. If they don't come out, no problem. Then I get the original images copied on to the Lazertran, asking them to reverse the images so the words will come out. I always ask the person making the copy to do a "test", they ruined a piece of Lazertran the first time by having the original placed in the wrong place. I think the hardest thing about Lazertran is that you have to kind of "plan" what you are going to do. Sometimes in the middle of the night, I really don't want to go to the copy store.