Making Ink

[Emulator]

This video shows ink manufacture, not inkjet ink, but interesting none the less.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fypi6dAJB8E

 

[The Hat]

Down memory lane for me..

 

[stratman]

Porn for printers.

This is why ink costs what it does. A lot of craftsmanship. i wonder how much of this could be replaced by machines.

 

[fotofreek]

beautiful video! I don't think any company will show how inkjet ink is made as all us tinkerers on the forum will immediately try our hand at it!

 

[websnail]

beautiful video! I don't think any company will show how inkjet ink is made as all us tinkerers on the forum will immediately try our hand at it!

And reports of aliens having landed and walking among us would soon hit the headlines...

It was awful, the t'ing had an Irish accent, looked almost human but was bright green and muttering about problems with blocked cannons?! We was just lucky they was blocked or they would have blown us all up!!!

 

[The Hat]

It would seem @websnail has been on the auld whisky again and is starting to see aliens everywhere, I reckon after half a bottle, an Epson might look like a monster..

 

[jtoolman]

beautiful video! I don't think any company will show how inkjet ink is made as all us tinkerers on the forum will immediately try our hand at it!

I think there's a promotional video from OCP in Germany. No secrets are disclosed but it basically shows you how the inks are made.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wy1BNkTMR0

Joe

 

[fotofreek]

@jtoolman - the video is quite an interesting promotional video, not because it describes the process in making the ink but because it delivers the message that OCP doen't mix their inks up, helter-skelter, in a bathtub and hope that it is uniform from batch to batch. Beginning to end, it displays the high tech instrumentation that tests the product from start to finish. There is even a "barrel" test, similar to wine or whiskey production, in which a sample is drawn out of a finished, fully packaged for shipment drum and subject to one last test before hundreds of drums are lined up for shipment.

Very impressive with masked, gowned, gloved scientists doing their thing with beautiful colored liquids. I'm not putting down the precision of the process - I'm just pointing out what I perceive as the advertising merit of the video.

Now --- let's see what I can mix up in my bathtub. That is, when I've finished washing my feet from stomping 75 pounds of grapes from my daughter's garden and rinsed out the tub! Now, if I could encourage her to grow proper grains for me to break out my old fractional distillation column ("borrowed" from my sophomore organic chem lab days) to make the real stuff.

 

[Roy Sletcher]

Now --- let's see what I can mix up in my bathtub. That is, when I've finished washing my feet from stomping 75 pounds of grapes from my daughter's garden and rinsed out the tub! Now, if I could encourage her to grow proper grains for me to break out my old fractional distillation column ("borrowed" from my sophomore organic chem lab days) to make the real stuff.

Great business potential...

1: Hire a teenage kid to do the stomping.
2: Mix your inks in the family washing machine. Multiple programs and cycles for economical manufacturing variations.
3: You sit in the sun sample the wine and think. (Quality Control)
4: When the kid finishes stomping get him to bottle the ink.

Even Elon Musk had to start somewhere.

RS

 

[ThrillaMozilla]

Even Elon Musk had to start somewhere.

Muskatel?