Hacking the Digital Print: Alternative image capture and printmaking processes with a special section on 3D printing

13. WonderSauce Transfer Process

Inkjet printing manufacturers are working hard to make sure that ink won’t move off a substrate, so it has been a tug of war for those of us who sometimes do want it off. Using isopropyl alcohol with SuperSauce got around the inherent chemical blocks and allowed artists to add photographs to mixed media work and embrace the random accidents that happen with the transfer process when the process itself, and the images, are interrupted. I’ve been amazed at some of the creative things that artists and photographers have done with SuperSauce, but I also know that there are many who can’t use alcohol—either for health ...