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Post by deathdragon on Dec 26, 2010 23:55:00 GMT -9
Ok Anyone know what colors or settings to use to get a mini to print out blacklight reactive? aside from a plain white mini I've had no luck getting colors to print as blacklight reactive & once i do get the correct colors do I need to use some sort of profile to change printers & still get them to work?
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Post by josedominguez on Dec 27, 2010 4:11:11 GMT -9
There's nothing blacklight reactive in any standard inks unfortunately. You've only got CMYK and non of the pigments are reactive, so it doesn't matter what colour you use, if the base pigments don't react, no combination you make with them will either... some laserprinters do 'glow' a little bit but that's down to luck. THe problem is that UV chemicals are pointless in normal inks, so they don't add them. White paper glows because of the bleach used in it, same reason washing powders look really bright (they are fluorescing). It's not the colour that makes it UV reactive, it's the chemicals used to make it..... so some happen to glow by coincidence, but a HP yellow and a cannon yellow are totally different. THe only thing I can suggest is painting over the areas you want to glow with a UV paint.... model shops sell it. Other than that, you'd just have to randomly buy new inks until you stumble on one that happens to have a UV reactive component. So, basically, with normal inks you can't really do it
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Post by deathdragon on Dec 28, 2010 22:13:43 GMT -9
Wow someones done their homework Yeah guess I'll have to use black light paint, I have some that's pretty much clear under normal light but reacts with black light
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Post by josedominguez on Dec 29, 2010 5:15:17 GMT -9
I've recently done some staff training on 'sensory resources' at my school.... I did a big demonstration of cool effects with UV light One thing worth trying is clear glue, some of those have a UV reactive component, you'd be able to paint a layer over the models.
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