{"id":729,"date":"2011-11-17T00:35:11","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T05:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shawncheng.com\/blog\/?p=729"},"modified":"2011-11-18T01:01:39","modified_gmt":"2011-11-18T06:01:39","slug":"diy-econo-transparencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shawncheng.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/diy-econo-transparencies\/","title":{"rendered":"DIY Econo Transparencies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-730\" title=\"DIY Econo Transparencies\" src=\"https:\/\/shawncheng.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/blog_20111117_oiling1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shawncheng.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/blog_20111117_oiling1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/shawncheng.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/blog_20111117_oiling1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Oversized transparencies are <em>waaaaaay<\/em> expensive to get printed \u2013 enough for me to work out the math of getting<br \/>\ntransparencies printed vs buying a $2,000 plotter (verdict: I&#8217;d probably get the print-o-tron if I had a place to<br \/>\nput it). Enter good ol&#8217; mineral oil ($7.49 at Rite Aid)! (Props to <a href=\"http:\/\/paping-allthingspaping.blogspot.com\/\">John &#8220;MacGuyver&#8221; Mejias<\/a> for suggesting this.)<br \/>\nSlather it on a plain ol&#8217; printout and you&#8217;ve got yourself a DIY Econo Transparency. I&#8217;m getting really good<br \/>\nexposures out of this method. <em>Cons<\/em>: a bit messy; also, mineral oil is usually stashed in the Laxatives section of<br \/>\nthe drug\u00a0store (&#8220;It&#8217;s for my artwork, honest!&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-732\" title=\"Hana likes to help\" src=\"https:\/\/shawncheng.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/blog_20111117_oiling2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shawncheng.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/blog_20111117_oiling2.jpg 640w, https:\/\/shawncheng.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/blog_20111117_oiling2-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hana likes to be helpful&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-733\" title=\"Youtube Break\" src=\"https:\/\/shawncheng.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/blog_20111117_oiling3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shawncheng.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/blog_20111117_oiling3.jpg 640w, https:\/\/shawncheng.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/blog_20111117_oiling3-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;but labor-management relations soon break down, as she demands a Youtube break. Sigh, that&#8217;s alright,<br \/>\nLady, Daddy&#8217;ll take it from here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oversized transparencies are waaaaaay expensive to get printed \u2013 enough for me to work out the math of getting transparencies printed vs buying a $2,000 plotter (verdict: I&#8217;d probably get the print-o-tron if I had a place to put it). &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/shawncheng.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/diy-econo-transparencies\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,5],"tags":[16,13,47],"class_list":["post-729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daddying","category-paintings","tag-hana","tag-nue-vs-kirin","tag-silkscreening"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shawncheng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shawncheng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shawncheng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shawncheng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shawncheng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shawncheng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shawncheng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shawncheng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shawncheng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}