Three of us were shown the melding of thin slips of shiny plastic onto backgrounds using the slow heat of a laminator; these were then cut and pasted to produce one type of badge.
Laser printed images on OHP film were fed through the laminator with heat reactive shiny film; the colour adhered to the laser print, so black became silver or whatever. Then some of the images were coloured with permanent markers. Each image was then backed and placed on rim edge papers and fed into the badge making machine.
These intricate processes have been explored experimentally by our tutor Vanda Taylor Nottingham.
