Announcement: transfer using a Brother HL2130 LAZER printer and Cellulose Thinner

[Arnaud Van Tilburgh]

It is mentioned before that a Brother LAZER printer doesn't work for transfer using Acetone and regular printing paper.
I have a Brother HL2130 LAZER printer and gave it a try using acetone, and indeed hard to transfer any of the image, however when using Cellulose Thinner I'm able to make a perfect transfer.

arnaud

 

[mitch]

i'm guessing "cellulose thinner" may be what's known in the US as lacquer thinner?

 

[Arnaud Van Tilburgh]

I do not know Mitch, the bottles that they sell over here are in 3 languages, it says cellulose thinner
There is also Synthetic Thinner.
I remember is the old days there way car paint both synthetic as cellulose and you had to take care not mixing them. The cellulose paint used cellulose thinner and was mostly used in the old days for black cars.
After airbrush you had to polish the paint to make it shine.

Another difference I experienced, the Synthetic one does not dissolve plastics and gloss lacquer, but the Cellulose one does.

Hope this help, perhaps someone else may know the exact US English name

arnaud

 

[sam]

This is a solution for the many people I've talked to over the years who cannot use Brother printers for transfers.

Thanks for your discovery, Arnaud!

 

[sam]

Copied to the Tips Archive for future reference.

 

[Arnaud Van Tilburgh]

It is the thinner that is use to dissolve hardened paint in brushes and so, not the synthetic thinner.
The cellulose thinner dissolves plastics as well.
I do not now the English term for it

As far as I can find out it has TOLUEEN in it, and probably ACETONE

Can someone point on the USA product name?

arnaud

 

[Arnaud Van Tilburgh]

Mitch, Lacquer Thinner is suggested on FB as well

 

[Brian Marshall]

I once had a hazmat specialist who was a student here.

I asked him to walk through my shops and classroom and point out all the possible "dangers"...

He did that, and I learned a lot.


Then I asked him what was the worst item he had seen in our "tour".

He pointed to the lacquer thinner and said "We call that stuff liver solvent.

It goes through the skin and lung tissue and into the bloodstream where it eventually destroys the liver."

So, be aware... you CAN use it. Just think ahead and take the precautions neccesary to keep from breathing it or from contacting skin.


Brian




And yeah, yeah - I know. I used to use carb cleaners, and wash my hands in gasoline and thinners when I was a puppy. We also had asbestos soldering benches.

After damn near getting killed twice and definitely getting permanently crippled from common stuff we use in the shop - I am a little more circumspect these days.

You should be too.

(this kind of information is NOT usually transferred to the tips archives - as in the case of lighter fluid based transfer solutions, carcinogens in graver grinding dust, etc.)

 

[Marrinan]

I know that Lynton felt sure that the materials we use caused his health problems resulting in his death at 58.

 

[Toad]

Soooooooooo, lacquer thinner is the same thing???
Todd

 

[Brian Marshall]

If it's on As*Book - it has to be true...


Brian

 

[Arnaud Van Tilburgh]

Soooooooooo, lacquer thinner is the same thing???
Todd

Yes Todd, as far as I could find out Cellulose Thinner is Lacquer Thinner

arnaud

 

[LVVP]

Arnaud,

Thank you very much for your info

 

[kof]

Thank you Arnaud !