Digital BW, The Print

As most of you know, inkjet inks, especially the pigmented,
archival ones, need a porous surface to dry.   If you print
on a nonporous surface they will stay wet for a long time,
and the rollers on the printer will track ink across everything.

As an experiment I tried printing on an acrylic sealed 
canvas this morning and the ink is STILL tacky, 9 hours
later!

Recently when surfing the web I came across a couple of 
places selling bottles of stuff you could coat paper, cloth, 
etc with so you could inkjet print on it.   But I can't
remember where I saw these.  Does anyone know who sells 
this stuff?   Thanks in advance!

http://www.inkaid.com/

> -----Original Message-----
> From: plnelson2003 <peter@...> 
> 
> As most of you know, inkjet inks, especially the pigmented,
> archival ones, need a porous surface to dry.   If you print
> on a nonporous surface they will stay wet for a long time,
> and the rollers on the printer will track ink across everything.
> 
> As an experiment I tried printing on an acrylic sealed 
> canvas this morning and the ink is STILL tacky, 9 hours
> later!
> 
> Recently when surfing the web I came across a couple of 
> places selling bottles of stuff you could coat paper, cloth, 
> etc with so you could inkjet print on it.   But I can't
> remember where I saw these.  Does anyone know who sells 
> this stuff?   Thanks in advance!

In all my years of owning Epson printers, I've never had a clog that
could not be cleaned from using the head cleaning utility in the driver.
Until now.  My new 1280 still has the original cartridges in it, and the
black has developed a clog that thus far a dozen cleaning cycles has not
touched.

Is there some place on the web I can go that will give me good
instructions about how to clean it with Windex/Ammonia?

Thanks,
Ed
http://lightandsilver.com