Re: Printing 3-D

[P3D John Ohrt <johrt@xxxxxxx>]

P3D John W Roberts wrote:
> On the other hand, I've never even put the color cartridge in my inkjet printer
> at home. I bought it for text and black and white graphics (with emphasis on
> line graphics), and I consider it close to the quality of a laser printer
> for those applications (I can tell the difference if I look closely, but it's
> not obvious or obtrusive). For 3D line art, I expect plain paper would be fine.

Inkjets are great value for such work and for black and white line art,
or gray scale for that matter, some inks are very flexible about media.

 
> Trivia item: HP's black ink holds up pretty well when tap water is spilled
> on it, but it runs when exposed to rainwater. I'm thinking about marketing
> oil-and-rainwater salad dressing, rainwaterade,... :-X

You can try an arts supplies store an look at the range of products that
you can spray on to protect watercolours etc.  They last time I looked,
a product called "Krylon" provided a hard, flexible covering.

There are also UV protective sprays.

If you got artwork you are really proud of, get it laminated with a
highly UV resistant product.  I don't know if general laminators carry
it, but if you go to a printing firm which uses industrial inkjets to
create large posters, they certainly will have it.

Regards,
John

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John Ohrt,  Regina, SK, Canada
johrt@xxxxxxx



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