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RE: [Digital BW] Inkjet Receptive Coatings

2003-02-22 by Jason DeFontes

http://www.inkaid.com/


> -----Original Message-----
> From: plnelson2003 <peter@...> 
> 
> As most of you know, inkjet inks, especially the pigmented,
> archival ones, need a porous surface to dry.   If you print
> on a nonporous surface they will stay wet for a long time,
> and the rollers on the printer will track ink across everything.
> 
> As an experiment I tried printing on an acrylic sealed 
> canvas this morning and the ink is STILL tacky, 9 hours
> later!
> 
> Recently when surfing the web I came across a couple of 
> places selling bottles of stuff you could coat paper, cloth, 
> etc with so you could inkjet print on it.   But I can't
> remember where I saw these.  Does anyone know who sells 
> this stuff?   Thanks in advance!

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