Help!
This is a little off topic. Does anyone out there know of a portable printer that can print to glass. The glass would need to be optical quality. The image would need to be heat and UV resistant.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks,
best bet may be to use silk screen. Mix powdered glass (available from glass blowers suppliers) with whatever medium works best such as gum arabic, and squeegee onto glass through the screen. It works pretty well for me. You can use special photo sensitive films to create the screens. Then use a kiln to 'cook'(fuse) the powdered glass onto the glass. m
Not off topic at all. What is it that you would want to print to the glass? Would it be the same thing over and over like a trade mark or emblem? If not, "portable" is probably going to be a problem. How big? Could it be acid etched or does it need to be a pigment? More info would help.
a possible : Easymark has an alcohol based non-contact inkjet printer for marking glass model EL-KT-727
screen printing might be the better bet since it would allow you to deliver a UV / heat resistant ink
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Specialty advertising firms print logos and the like on just about any kind and shape of surface. I think they call one of the machines a "pad printer", that's what they use to print logos on golf balls.
Exactly what do you mean by "optical quality" glass? Are you talking about the glass that would be used in photographic applications or in astronomy?
Maybe a bit more specific information from you would help us to help you with the problem.
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