[PLUG] Printer Recommendations

[Alex Daniloff]

Hi Kyle,

On Saturday 06 July 2002 10:56 pm, you wrote:
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> I'd love to hear more about Alex's ink recipe...
>
> cheers,
> Kyle AccardiOn Saturday 06 July 2002 10:56 pm, you wrote:
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> I'd love to hear more about Alex's ink recipe...
>
> cheers,
> Kyle Accardi

Here is the recipe for Cannon BJC 620 color inks.
Original color inks bases on the metil alcohol mixed 
with black, cyan, magenta and yellow pigments.
You can substitute metil alcohol with etil alcohol or 
97% concentartion rubbing alcohol sold in department stores.
Except this you have to get a couple of roller ball pen cores with the paste 
of black cyan, magenta and yellow colors. Each core will produce 
approximately up to 60 standard ink catriges.
The initial proportion per ink catrige is 3% of pigment on 97% of alcohol.
Pour this mix into a flask with a tight cap and shake it well within 5-10 
minutes or until you see that the pigment was completely dissolved in 
alcohol. 
After this you have to give it a warm water bath at  30-40 C (degree of 
Celsius)  within 15 minutes.
You can use a small cattle filled with water to heat your flasks with inks.
After you done this, let it cool to the room temperature.
Final product should look like colored transparent liquid with the color of 
the same consistency and strength as an original ink. 
You can add some more core paste if you need to get a darker ink color. 
Using plastic syringe with the needle recharge your empty catrige with 
appropriate color and enjoy printing for free.

Recipe for ribbon catrige:
Original ribbon catrige has oil based ink with a black pigment.
As a black pigment you can use typograph black paint which has 
consistency of a paste or light grease.
For oil you can use almost any heavy natural oil which has a tendency to 
slowly dry out or polymerize. 
I use for this purposes cotton seed oil which has a great polymerization 
ability. 
Mix about 5-7% of black typograph paint with 95-93% of oil.
Pour it into flask and shake it within 15-20 minutes.
Give it a hot water bath at 60-70% C within 30-45 minutes.
Let it cool to the room temperature. 
You should get a radical black oil based liquid ink. 
Test it on a scrap paper if you need to add some more typographic ink in it.
Completely pull out used ribbon from the catrige and put it into a plastic 
bag without holes. 
Pour two tea spoons of your custom ink into this bag with used ribbon and 
close it tight with a rubber ring or a rope. Shake it and jam with you hands 
within 20 -25 minutes so your custom ink will saturate into ribbon fibers.
Put ribbon back into the catrige and enjoy printing for free. 
One ribbon could sustain up to 10-15 recharges till it wears completely. 
  
That's it

Alex
  
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