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Listen up Ink Militant InkJet Combatants! - Jimmypoo - 12-17-2009
I'm not Wilhem (though I often play one when I put on my Nazi outfit..., and Giselle comes over!), HOWEVER.....
Regarding the EnviroInks link I posted the other day.... HERE IS WHAT I'ma GONNA DO!
I'm going to print 3 identical photos --- with Epson, HP and EnviroInk (in the Epson, since that is the
one that is running out and I ordered for).
yes.... I'll print plenty to make sure there isn't residual inks blah blah blah.... in the Epson R260.
And THEN -- all three will get hung in the kitchen - ON THE WINDOW facing the southern sky.
THEN --- we shall revisit this day on the day of my choosing. If I see dramatic changes that
prove that one ink has water added instead of INK, I'll notify everyone immediately. If after
6 months of staring directly into the sun (this window gets it come March, from noon until
sunset), it's the best "accelerated aging" test you'se is gonna get without a machine pumping
UV at high strength in an ozone atmosphere.
THIS, THIS I DO FOR YOU, you unappreciative f#$%^ks!
Any other requests?
Re: Listen up Ink Militant InkJet Combatants! - AAA - 12-17-2009
Are you in the northern hemisphere or southern hemisphere?
Re: Listen up Ink Militant InkJet Combatants! - deckeda - 12-17-2009
Vote to make this a Sticky, and to leave it up until March.
Re: Listen up Ink Militant InkJet Combatants! - mattkime - 12-17-2009
there must be a way to speed up the UV testing.
Re: Listen up Ink Militant InkJet Combatants! - deckeda - 12-17-2009
Get the pictures a membership to a tanning salon.
Re: Listen up Ink Militant InkJet Combatants! - blooz - 12-17-2009
Put a 1" or so strip of paper across each of them to better see the changes on each one. I tested inks for lightfastness this way years ago.
Re: Listen up Ink Militant InkJet Combatants! - Filliam H. Muffman - 12-17-2009
Maybe keep a control in a mylar envelope in a dark drawer?
Re: Listen up Ink Militant InkJet Combatants! - Jimmypoo - 12-17-2009
all will be done when I get the ink here and get the R260 emptied.
I'm in Atlanta. So I've got a great window that faces south south/west (such a view, it raises the temp 20
degrees every day - even today) - and they'll be a looking that way. Winter will be over March 1 here.
Last year was a freak on March 1 (the first snow!).
It just reminds me of construction paper in a class room.
Also... don't make this a sticky. It will just fade by the time the photos are done.