Slow Drying Ink

[garytonite]

This is a bit of a long shot and I don't know that I am in the right place to get an answer but here goes.

I have an application for using a standard PC Printer (mine happens to be a Canon Pixma 3600) to produce an image with a slow-drying ink. I want to deliver an A4 sheet where one colour is wet, with a slightly tacky surface. Would the printer deliver an image that was tacky and not smudged? So, if that is a goer what about the ink, where do I turn to for that. I have already contacted one of the large manufacturers who has "deafened me with silence".
Please give me some hope, guys. Its a serious application I am trying to get off the ground. Otherwise I'll have to go back to inventing the Motorbike roof rack!

 

[Grandad35]

This probably won't be of any help, but here are a few things to consider:
1. The ink on a printer doesn't actually "dry" quickly, it is just quickly absorbed into the paper's surface coating, where it can dry over several hours. For example, if you print on the back of most photopapers, the ink will just smear when the paper comes out of the printer because there isn't an absorbent coating on the back.
2. If two colors of wet ink lay on the surface for even a short time, the will run together and give a muddy bown.

 

[Tin Ho]

Besides, not all plain paper (non coated) are equal. Some of them ink will dry on them faster than some others will. I found that if the ink drys slower the paper tends to print better black text too. I think it is because there is less bleeding (thus slower drying).

 

[nche11]

2. If two colors of wet ink lay on the surface for even a short time, the will run together and give a muddy bown.

This says how critical paper quality can be. It's not the paper material but the coating on the paper that is critical.

 

[ghwellsjr]

When I was searching for large sheets of cheap paper, I tried fingerpaint paper. Talk about slow drying!! I don't think the ink ever dries. However, you won't be able to control which color dries and which one takes a long time. Also, I can't remember whether the printout look smudged or not. It certainly smudges if you put your fingers on it.

Are you trying to use more than one color where some dry quickly and others dry slowly?

Do you mind telling us what this is for?