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
>
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