Digital BW, The Print

Glycerol is a three carbon alcohol (C3H8O3) and is completely harmless. You are, I suspect, thinking of glycol, specifically ethylene glycol (C2H6O2) which is very definitely poisonous. (Sorry to be pedantic...)

Roger
  -----Original Message-----
  From: johnglodge [mailto:john.lodge@...]
  Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2003 11:48 AM
  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
  Subject: [Digital BW] Re: Marching ants (this is not a Photoshop question!): Glycerol


  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


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