Digital BW, The Print

On Dec 7, 2009, at 10:41 PM, garyphoto6 wrote:

> I had a little ink event tonight and quite a lot of ink ended up on  
> my hands. Does anyone have any great ways to remove black ink from  
> hands and nails?

Iinkjet ink is peculiar that way. While its nearly impossible to  
remove it all from your skin by washing, at least without chemicals  
that you probably don't care to use on your skin, it none-the-less  
fades out in fairly short order. I find that time spent in the hottub  
accelerates the process. I've often wondered which way its going: out,  
or in? Like auto mechanics (who suffer the nickname greasemonkeys  
because of it) those who mess about with printing tend to be easy to  
distinguish. Those who work on the press floor still use the term "get  
some ink under their nails"when wishing those without press floor  
experience would get some. My wife has taken to warning me two or  
three days in advance when there is  social occasion which she deems  
important enough that she would like me to be ink-free that day. Given  
the acceptability of tattoos these days (often referred to simply as  
'ink') I don't see why the freeform, and sometimes colorful, inking  
that comes from mucking about with printers should still suffer from  
such prejudice...

C. David Tobie
Global Product Technology Manager
Digital Imaging & Home Theater
CDTobie@...


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