How to stop ink bleeding

[tru-ella]

Have bought some downloads and printed them last night.

Ink is dry, printed onto smooth surface lightweight card.

Tried to colour in with my promarkers today and, not all, but some of the areas of printing bleed slightly. Sure most people would not notice, but I do as would any card maker I suppose.

Is there a spray you can buy to stop any bleeds.

Thanks

Tru x

[Mothership]

Have bought some downloads and printed them last night.

Ink is dry, printed onto smooth surface lightweight card.

Tried to colour in with my promarkers today and, not all, but some of the areas of printing bleed slightly. Sure most people would not notice, but I do as would any card maker I suppose.

Is there a spray you can buy to stop any bleeds.

Thanks

Tru x

This so odd, I can colour digis with everything but water colours. There must be real differences between ink types.

Anyway in answer, yes there is a fixative designed especially for this problem.

This is the one I use to be able to water colour and I have done both water colour and Promarkers on one image and it worked for that

http://www.7dayshop.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=777_2&products_id=61025
It lasts ages as a quick blast is all that's needed. On no account be tempted to use hair spray, a horrible mess will happen. :(

[tru-ella]

thanks I have ordered one, looked a really good price £4.99 with free delivery too

[Sandra]

Great price! Just ordered mine too :)

[LoobyLou]

I ordered one too, as occasionally when I am using Sansodor and prismas, especially around heavily black areas like eyes for example, I get some bleeding. Great price, thanks for the heads up MS. Strangely I can watercolour no problem, its just the spirits, I guess it dissolves the ink.

[craftycat]

I use a basic watercolour/pastel fixitive, available at all art shops for stamped images if I am worried about bleeding. Don't know if it would work for computer ink.

[craftycat]

tried spraying a print off from HP original with my pastel fix and it bled!

[LoobyLou]

Have any of you ladies who ordered this fixative spray received it yet?

[Mothership]

Have any of you ladies who ordered this fixative spray received it yet?

I think it comes from somewhere like the Channel Islands and it will usually take about a week. Not time to panic yet LL :)

[tru-ella]

no not yet, imagine as its free delivery will take about a week

my Amazon order made last thursday hasn't arrived yet either

[craftycat]

seems as though there are problems with deliveries full stop at the moment. I've got several orders (non crafting) where I've been told stuff is out of stock. Doesn't stop them taking the money though!

[LoobyLou]

I did a contact them thing from the website, they haven't even posted the bliddy thing yet!

[Mothership]

I did a contact them thing from the website, they haven't even posted the bliddy thing yet!

Do you mean the account history thingee LL? Or have you had a personalised answer?
I ask cos when I first bought from them I used that account history thing and was informed my order hadn't shipped, imagine my suprise when it a arrived the next day.

[LoobyLou]

I had a personalised answer MS, in which they said they had not yet dispatched it.

[tru-ella]

My spray came this morning, will try it out and let you know how I get on

[LoobyLou]

Forgot to come back and say mine arrived yesterday, but as my craft table is full of flowery things I still haven't had a chance to give it a go.

Like Tru, I will report back once I have.

[tru-ella]

need lessons in spraying the damn thing!

First image was soaked but only half of it, completely missed the other haf

Think the second image was sprayed and dried ok,

[Mothership]

How's the spraying going now Tru?
It can be a bit difficult to start with I found that too. If I laid the paper down flat I would always end up with way too much spray on the paper. I can't set chalks or perfect pearls with the paper laying flat either. I find it easiest to hold the paper up and spray quickly whilst moving the can down at the same time, I think by doing it this way I'm also allowing enough space between the can and the paper.

[tru-ella]

Have coloured a few images today, certainy no ink bleeding at all.

Promarkers still work on it, but find they dont quite blend the same