[EKStationers] RE: printing ink `was` Quarterly Reports due

[iheronimus at comcast.net]

When I wanted to make pasteboard (which is what I understand playing cards are 
made on), I pasted sheets of paper together and pressed them in a bookpress for 
several days. Pressing between flat surfaces under weight would have a similar 
result. This would probably also give a smoother finish to the cards...

And the lampblack & linseed mix is what I understand made up Gutenberg's ink. 

Keep in mind, it is oil based because it is being printed froim a metal surface - if 
you're printing from a woodblock, a sufficiently thick water-based ink should work 
as well.

Keep it simple...

8)

Iheronimus



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From: mandy poirier <nitty_kitty at hotmail.com>
> 
> 
>  I'll have to admit that this whole paper thing is flying on a wing and a 
> prayer, I don't know that there is a way to control thickness really well other 
> than by lots of experience, which I don't have much of yet... will get back once 
> I've gained more exp ;) (no doubt will eventually be webbing the whole process)
>  
> and yup, got the lamp black and the super thick boiled linseed oil but also read 
> about other additives such as tree resin and about traces of graphite found in a 
> manuscript so figured that there might have been more to it and somebody may 
> have found some interesting recipes out there somewhere. 
>  
> Griet
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