Digital BW, The Print

Your pedantry is accepted but your train of thought could be 
expanded, it is not necessarily the glycerol that is the harmful 
constituent but it is what attracts.

...John

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Roger L 
Sopher" <rlsopher@c...> wrote:
> 
> 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@s...]
>   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
> 
> 
>         Yahoo! Groups Sponsor 
> 
>              
>        
>        
> 
>   Please visit the Group Homepage to check the Files, Bookmarks, 
Polls and other resources as they are often being updated. The page 
is at:
> 
>   http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint
> 
>   If you wish to receive no emails or just a daily digest, or you 
wish to unsubscribe, please edit your Membership preferences by 
visiting this same page.
> 
>   Please follow these basic guidelines:
>   - Include your full name with your message.
>   - Include the address of your website, if you have one.
>   - As threads develop, trim off excess portions of earlier 
messages to keep them short.
>   - As the topic of a thread changes remember to change the 
subject header.
>   - Good manners are required at all time. No personal attacks or 
&amp;amp;quot;flames.&amp;amp;quot;
>   - Complete your Yahoo profile.
>   - Before posting a question, search the message archives and the 
various resources on the homepage. 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>   Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of 
Service. 
> 
> 
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]