[MR] RE: heraldry

[sirknight at mindspring.com]

When your printer carts run dry, reload them with water soluble
acrylics, metallic inks, or your choice of permanent, non-fading,
inks. If you are willing to toss the cart in thinner when it is not in
use (test on a deceased cart because mineral spirits dissolve some
plastics) you can load the things with enamel paint. Any hot wax
printer, such as the big Techtronics, will put out a non-fading image.
I do photo-quality, non-fading, prints with a TechColor roll dye-sub
printer. Minimal warm-up time compared to the printers that use actual
colored wax sticks and have to melt them. Works on paper or on iron-on
stock.

I'd consider the 'wet test'. If the print smears when you check it
with a damp fingertip, it will fade. A simple, no water soluble inks,
rule would solve that problem.

FWIW: Why are we saving hard copy long enough for the ink to fade?
Wouldn't a scanned data base of images and data using a common
program, like Access, be more convenient? Make it doable to use a
keyword search on charge and/or fields. Burn an annual CD for sale to
the masses for $10 or so for a fund raiser.

		Taras



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Sent: Monday, June 04, 2001 5:56 AM
To: atlantia at atlantia.sca.org
Subject: Re: [MR] RE: heraldry

If someone were to come up with color printer inks that did not fade,
this
problem might be alleviated, but until then we are stuck doing it by
hand.

In fact, only certain brands of markers are allowed for colouring, for
the
same reason.