as a mixed media artist, i use freezer paper transfers of inkjet printed images all the time!

here is the tutorial i wrote up a while back for an altered books group:

Freezer Paper Transfer Technique for InkJet Printers
by Jen Minnis


freezer paper transfers are easy, quick and fun.

first off, for all the folks who have never heard of it, freezer paper is a
paper made to wrap food in to freeze... from before we had freezer bags,
lol. it is white paper on one side and plastic on the other. waxed paper is
not the same thing. it comes in a roll and is usually sold next to the
aluminum foil in the supermarket. Reynolds is the easiest brand to find
usually.

cut your freezer paper down into pages that will fit into you printer.

layout you image the way you want it to print in whatever software you use
to print. if you are using text, make sure you reverse the image, otherwise
it will be backwards after you transfer it.

you print on the SHINY side of freezer paper. the image will take a long
time to dry on the plastic, so you have lots of working time.

turn the wet image over onto your receiving paper. I highly recommend taping
it down so it won't shift while you are burnishing. burnish it onto your
surface. burnishing is just pressing down and rubbing really firmly with
something like a bone folder or the back of a spoon. the ink will transfer.
you can lift a corner and peak to see how it is going...

you can move your used piece of freezer paper to a new place and get a ghost
image by burnishing down again. sometimes, depending on the image and how
hard I burnished before, I can get up to 3 clear transfers from one
printing... each one lighter than the last.

also, if you are trying to transfer onto something with a texture to it, the
ink will only transfer to the top surfaces of the texture. this can be an
interesting look. also, you can get a second transfer with the areas that
transferred in the first transfer being lighter... and the areas that didn't
transfer the first time around being darker. it can be a very unique look.

wipe any excess ink off the freezer paper with a paper towel after you are
done and you will be able to reuse it.

if you can't find freezer paper, this technique can also be done by printing
on a regular transparency or the wrong (smooth) side of an inkjet
transparency.

as soon as I have time to set up to take some photographs of all this, I'll
put together a tutorial for my website :)

Jen Minnis
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you can use the old fasion transparencies to do ink jet transfers... or use the *wrong* (aka slick) side of ink jet transparencies...

just follow the instructions i posted for freezer paper transfers. the concept is the same.

this method works on most slick surfaces with inkjet printers because ink jet printers use a liquid dye based ink.

it won't work with laser printers because they are toner which is a power form that is heat activated (melted).

I'm intrigued by this as well. The ink didn't bubble up or anything and your image was smooth? I would think that it would smear really easy. I love the idea. Until now I've just been using a pencil and then rubbing it on my medium to transfer the image. This would be alot quicker!

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I'm intrigued by this as well. The ink didn't bubble up or anything and your image was smooth? I would think that it would smear really easy. I love the idea. Until now I've just been using a pencil and then rubbing it on my medium to transfer the image. This would be alot quicker!

Yes, and you don't have to have a laser printer or photo copier like you do for an acetone transfer.