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Using Tattoo Transfer Paper: What to Expect When Getting a Tattoo
Summary: Learn how to use carbon transfer paper to adhere your tattoo design to the skin in this free body art video with tattooing tips and techniques.
Rick Wyckoff has been a tattoo artist for more than 16 years and has owned four tattoo shops in Arizona, concentrating in central Arizona for more than 11 years. He is currently at his...read more
" Hi! My name is Rick Wyckoff and you can check out our website at avatart2.com. I am here on behalf of expertvillage.com and we are talking about tips and tricks for tattoos. One of the things that you will often see when you are getting a tattoo is they will take a line drawing of whatever your design is and in order to get it on your skin, they use a piece of thermographic transfer paper. Now this is sort of a dated or antiquated thing. This paper they used to use for making transparencies for overhead projectors and the light but also for Ditto masters in schools before they had copiers and they had this thing you cranked and had a drum on it. Basically this image would be transferred through this carbon onto this image I mean onto this piece of paper and they take this piece of paper and they put it on the machine and it would print out a bunch of carbon copies. But what we do is put this through a thermographic transfer maker so after I've run it through the thermographic transfer maker basically I end of with an exact duplicate of the line drawing. So I remove the carbon copy from the rest of it and this basically adheres to the skin after it is moistened a little bit with soap and water."
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artyfarty said
on 6/22/2009 G'day, I have a question Please...My son wants me design his tatoo, I was wondering if there is a special ink pen that I can use to draw on him so that it will be easier for the tattoo artist to tattoo it and not have to draw it on himself (save tm and money for my son too)
Thanks for your video it was great but where would I find a thermographic transfer machine? If I was to do the transfer this way? Do all tattoo people have these?
cheers
Jax
Australia