Creating Printing Plates with Laser Toner

Bill Ritchie, from Halfwood Press demonstrates how to create an image transfer by using a laser print on silicone-backed label stock, which is a shipping label paper. The interesting thing about his technique is this specific paper that he is using for his transfer, since the backing of the label stock paper can then be re-used later for the back of his plate as an acid resist.
In part 2 of this video series he works back into the image with a scribe, burnisher and scraper to make it less photographic and more like an original drawing. The transfer is etched lightly so that it may just be used as a starting point. In my opinion this is the way that all photo etchings should be treated. Simply duplicating a photographic image within a print medium seems like a bit of a waste of time, and sort of stale.
I have posted both parts of this video just in case you are interested in seeing him continue working on this plate, but it is only part 1 that I am really interested in, because it is this paper he uses in creating the substrate that intrigues me. These and many other Halfwood Press videos can be found on YouTube.

Part 1 of 2

Part 2 of 2