MAKE Blog write: DIY:Happy has a good round up of ways to do solvent transfers… – "Doing a solvent transfer is probably the quickest, easiest way to get an image onto a T-Shirt, Moleskine, or other surface. Like screen printing, the image is applied directly the surface. Unlike screen printing, this can be done quickly, [...]

Fuji press release: Fuji Hunt’s dedicated R&D division has long been developing methods to bring digital printing media to a par with traditional papers. Now, a new trio of especially smooth finishes have passed the quality barrier and represent the very best materials on which imagery of all types can be printed. Fuji Hunt’s range [...]

Check out this tutorial for etching images in copper onto circuit boards! I suspect that there’s a lot more that can be done with the plates than meets the eye. Things that immediately come to mind are a variety of chemical tarnishings, using it as a printing plate on paper, several possibilities for magnetically aligning [...]

Paul Butzi writes in The Online Photographer: Different isn’t synonymous with bad. Instead of viewing every difference between silver-based photography and digital photography as weaknesses in the new technology, it’s far more productive as artists to pick up the new technology and ask ourselves, “Where can I go with this that I couldn’t go before?” [...]

Darren of One Stop Under writes: "Edwin Leong over at CameraHobby.com has done a nice roundup review of several fine art matte inkjet papers from Crane, Legion, and Moab. "I like the way Edwin has published two sets of results – one titled ‘Technical, Nitpicky and Anal-Retentive Comments’ to keep the pixel peepers happy, and [...]

AlternativePhotography.com have two new how-tos up, one each for woodburytype and ziatype printing. Woodburytype "The woodbury type/woodbury process by Nicolai Klimaszewski is an interesting take on carving. Read and learn." "Woodburytype images are made by pouring a translucent mixture of pigments suspended in warm gelatin onto a relief surface, then transferring this pigment layer onto [...]

What can I say other than a long string of positive expletives? Check out how he did it at chromogenic.net.