Monday, December 21, 2009

Is there opaque ink for your printer for acetate sheets?

Is there a special kind of opaque ink for your inkjet printer that will print on acetate and not be transparent. Meaning you can't see threw the color?????? Is there opaque ink for your printer for acetate sheets?
No, not really, however, there are dye-based and pigment based inks.





Dye based are much more popular, because they are much cheaper to produce, both the inks themselves, and the printers that can handle them.





Of the manufacturers who use pigment based inks, the two I am aware of are Epson, and Kodak, and Kodak printers (at least their software/drivers and support) are absolutely TERRIBLE.





Canon uses a pigment based BLACK ink in some of their models (The models that have separately replaceable cartridges consisting of 3 colors (Cyan, Magenta, yellow) and 2 different black cartridges), but the color inks are dye based.





The pigment based inks are going to be MORE opaque than the dye based inks, but will not be completely opaque.





Technically, inks from a color laser should be relativly opaque, as should Dye Sub printers, and solid ink printers such as the Xerox Phaser series.Is there opaque ink for your printer for acetate sheets?
Acetates RELY on transparent ink. How do you think the light gets through to the screen?





All you need is acetates that printer ink will adhere to.

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