Coating your own colour paper?

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Is it possible? Or rather, is it possible to get the chemicals for printing colour photographs and then actually make the print on a different surface, say wood?

As Baldrick might say, I have a cunning plan...
 
I'm not aware of anyone who makes colour emulsions for coating. I'm not certain if the process has changed since I read up on it, but I'd expect you'd need three (at least) different emulsions with the usual light senstive halides but with colour couplers as well. I suspect that the difficulty of applying three or more layers evenly and equally would rule it out of court unless you were prepared to take a long time over it.

Removing the image layer from a print (as in dye transfer) is another matter.
 
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you can try with some colour, i think colour laser can be done, ive done black and white photocopies, with acrylic medium
 
If we are allowing non analogue methods, the simplest way would be inkjet transfer sheets. But I was assuming conventional only. I don't know if dye transfer printing (overview here) would be feasible, since the image is three gelatine layers transferred to a paper base, and I don't know if a non-paper surface would (or could be made to) hold it. That's even supposing you can get the materials now.
 
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Interesting stuff, forgot colour was 3 layers! I might just see if I can cyanotype it!
 
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