Uses for FUTURE acrylic floor finish

Future Floor Wax 

  • Hard-ground 
  • Removing hard-ground with diluted ammonia solution. 
  • Extending the life of the photo polymer film. Particularly useful for the Dove-Howardtype technique. 
  • Used as a block-out for Intaglio-type techniques.
  • Stop-out varnish two coats. 
  • Use to produce tusche like washes either by diluting with water or reworking dried areas with ammonia and water. 
  • Direct mark making resist method. Paint Vaseline, vegetable oil or baby oil onto plate and coat with Future. Remove oil with alcohol. 
  • Sugar or rock salt can be dropped into the wet Future. The Future is allowed to dry after which the salt or sugar removed before etching. 
  • Crayon Resist. Paint crayon on to plate and wash down with Future. Remove crayon mark with heat from hair dryer or Citra-sol. 
  • Reworking relief areas of the plate. Coat with Future and use a mild ammonia solution to selectively remove Future where plate tone is wanted.
  • Re-etching the relief areas. Coat the plate with Future and sand the relief surface with 600 grit wet and dry sandpaper. The relief areas then can be etched. 
  • Sandpaper aquatint. Run an acrylic coated plate through the etching press with sandpaper on top to make aqua tint

Protect Back of Plate 

  • When the plate is dry, cover the back with contact paper or overlapping strips of plastic, self-adhesive (Scotch brand) wrapping tape to prevent the ferric chloride from biting the back of the plate.

Cleaning the ground off the plate:  

The FUTURE hard-ground can be easily removed with a 10% soda ash solution provided that it is done so within a few hours of preparing this ground. Just add one teaspoon of soda ash powder to 1 litre of water. If you leave the FUTURE on the surface of the plate longer than a few hours you will need to make up a mild ammonia solution to remove the FUTURE. There are non-ammonia smelling floor strippers that are also available for removing FUTURE. But caution should be exercised with these products.  
 

Colored ink tips

When working with colored ink, a solution of 50% Future and 50% water can be used to coat the entire plate. This thin coating does not block up even very fine marks yet serves as an effective barrier for the inks from contamination by the metal