Transfer Patterns (Continued)

Transfer Patterns (Continued)

Skewes, Ed

10/19/2001

Hello again Here are the remainder of the comments. Thank you all.
Hi Mr. Skewes,
I used some flesh tone polypro a while ago that (I think), came from Otto
Bock. If you check around, its out there.
If Mr. Friddle has a hard time getting the flesh tones on transfer paper,
feel
free to email me, and I'll send you a sample sheet of flesh tone transfer
paper, so you
can pick out exactly the color you want.

Please have a look at the attached brochure, and let me know if there is
anything I can do
for you. You should be recieving a real copy with a free sample within the
next week.
Best Regards,
Marcus Boren
Board-Eligible Prosthetist
Ed:
If I was going to make a thermoplastic device and wanted it to be a flesh
like tone, I would use a flesh or caucasion coloured thermoplastic from one
of the distributors and not bother with trying to transfer a flesh tone to
white thermoplastic.
Fred
I would use the flesh tone papers to color match the orthoses of my
patients, why stop at just one color?
We could possibly have swatches of colors or tones.
Bob Bangham, C.O., L.O.
Corpus Christi, Texas
 use flesh tones (pink(ish) and brown) PP for custom orthoses. Why fool
with a transfer. Unless you can get the transfer to really look like skin
and in various shades and striations I don't see the benefit over colored
solid
plastic.
Morris Gallo
Hi Ed,
We have found the same to be true with many adult clients requesting a flesh
tone AFO. I could see us using a flesh tone 'print'.
Thanks
James Tarrant, C.O.
Canada
Otto Bock has caucasian transfer paper. It is quite pale in colour, perfect
for pediatric applications. It is very easy to use unlike some other
transfer paper products which wrinkle very easily. The catalogue number is
623P20.
Ian Whatmough
Prosthetic Technician
Myoelectric Dept.
Bloorview MacMillan Children's Centre
Toronto, Canada
Ed,
My adult patients inquire about flesh tone AFO's quite frequently. I would
be interested in trying it if it were available. Coloring is an added cost
since we cannot get reimbursed for such pigmentation.
 Tom Padilla, CPO
Boise, Idaho
Fillauer sells a fleshtone transfer paper. 1 shade- medium fleshtone.
Fillauer 800-251-6398
Dear Ed,
As far as I know, there is no one who currently makes fleshtone transfer
paper. I have been a long time advocate of the idea that someone should make
fleshtones available in transfers using the printers PMS ( Pantone Matching
System) chart. If you are not familiar with this chart, it is used by
printers to make sure that the color selected by the customer is the same
color used by the printer.

My thought is that if you had, say, ten or twenty different shades of
fleshtone transfers, you could match it to the patients actual skin tone.
You would have a card with the different colors on it, each with it's own
number. You would pull the correct number transfer paper out and use it on
the orthosis. This would not only allow you to match the skin tone of your
patient, you would also not have to stock all of these different colors in
copoly and polypro. To say nothing of the different thicknesses.

I have asked several manufacturers of transfer paper if this is something
that they would be interested in and have not seen any results yet. Maybe in
the future..........?
 Good luck in your search,
Steve Hill,
OTS Corp.