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Marching ants (this is not a Photoshop question!)

2003-05-04 by Steven Karafyllakis

Seems I'm getting all the oddball problems right now... here's a 
really weird one. It seems the species of ant known in the South as 
a sugar ant (tiny, black, attracted to sweets) likes ink! I keep 
finding them inside my 1280, occasionally I get one or two glued to 
a print, and if I have a clogging problem and clean the bottom of 
the head, sometimes I find a tiny body or two smeared into the glop 
on the paper towel. If I get sloppy and leave inks drops on the 
counter after cart-refilling, in the morning there will be a cirle 
of tiny bodies busily dring away at the stuff. So what do I do, set 
a few ant-motel bait traps in my 1280? Fumigate it once a week? Mix 
insecticide in the ink? Buy an ant-eater! yeah! that's the ticket!

This is not a joke! Though I can't help laughing...

Steve Karafyllakis

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