You end up with a mixture that has the consistency of thin custard. I let the liquid run over the ceramic tile and drip off, so it forms an even layer. Then I lay the tile flat and use a hairdryer to speed up the drying process, so you can start laser engraving right away.
When you laser it, the TiO₂ powder fuses with the ceramic surface. It becomes permanently locked into the material and will never come out again. This technique is also known as the Norton White Tile method. In that method they usually use spray paint from a can, but that contains far less TiO₂ than when you use pure powder and mix it yourself with water and wood glue.
The wood glue acts as a binder to help the mixture stick, and the water is simply to get the right thickness. This gives you a consistent coating that reacts beautifully during engraving and produces a strong, permanent black mark.
That’s quite nice, I actually meant to ask if you had lasered camera photographs and if you had processed any using ‘DithX’.
I would like to practice the lasered camera photographs more than downloaded images but I would like to see how Ai could assist in the type of images that are beyond the cameras capabilities and a bit quicker than photo images manipulation software.
Do you think that such as DithX would be helpful in that respect.
Ps Nice production work on the video for application of the Tio2 mixture.
