Digital BW, The Print

Take a look as the MSDS sheet for the ink, on the Epson support site 
under FAQ, Both the Black and the color contain Glycerol:

 "a sweet-tasting, colorless, odorless, syrupy liquid syrupy"

...it is also in automobile coolant, and has been the cause of child 
poisonings (along with dogs etc.,) as it is sweet testing.

...John

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Steven 
Karafyllakis" <steve@s...> wrote:
> 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