Study of Toner Mask Method for Silver Sulfide Imaging on Silver Plate

Abstract

We have been studying a color change of a silver plate using sulfide solution. In the present work, we explored the possibility that a toner image which was made by a laser beam printer could be used as a mask for the color change of the silver sulfide. We found that a gloss coated paper and an OHP sheet with a cellophane tape were able to be supporting media for the toner images and show good toner transferring efficiencies to the silver plate surface. In addition, the gloss coated paper, which had small Gurley-type air permeability, had advantages in terms of air voids occurrence at the cellophane taped area.