Mutant Materials 1

Ok, this is the start of my "Mutant Materials" assignment. 
For the assignment I'm going to look at current technologies in printing and how I might incorporate them into my work.
Printing on glass is a technique that I'm very interested in as a major component of my art work. So far, in terms of images, I have only just started with some basic manoeuvres in photoshop - I can do simple adjustments to my image, create CMYK separations and have a limited command of channels. When I join the Bachelor of Digital Media course at QCA next year I hope to markedly improve these skills in order to start producing the sort of images I really want to use in my work. Along with this, this assignment is an excellent opportunity to start investigating the kind of options that might be available for me to use in printing my work - while my initial focus is on printing glass, I am open to print combined with any transparent or translucent materials such as acetate or perspex. I am also open to different methods of producing the image - currently I am screen printing enamels and then firing them, but I expect my repertoire to expand depending on what I discover in my investigations.
So, where do I start?
Well, I shall start with the internet, that repository of all that is new and exciting and from there work out if there are journals or books I need to access. I will talk to people I know in the advertising and printing industries to find out what what technologies they might be using that could be of interest to me, I will look at contemporary artists who use print in their work and I will look at commercial printing.
Hopefully some interesting asides will be thrown up along the way.
Next stop - the internet!