Ultimately circumstances required closing my platinum/palladium printing laboratory and I began to look for other more readily available hand printing techniques. I settled image transfer because these processes still involve hand manipulation and can be applied to a variety of substrates.  These methods involve digitally printing a reversed but otherwise final color image on specially developed transfer media.  After coating with any of a variety of transfer compounds, the image lifts away from the intermediate substrate to transfer onto new media, paper, wood or other surfaces.  Most of my transfers are made onto wood panels or gesso coated stretched canvas. In case of incomplete transfer, one of the more enjoyable aspects is manual repair with carefully blended acrylic paints. The final products are best finished with acrylic varnish, often with a black acrylic border.