When will they start selling glow in the dark ink for lazy folks like me who don't want to go through the motions?

quite useless

Ugh, shenanigans...

I wish they'd show the stuff actually glowing in the video, and not a fake shot... I bought some glow-in-the-dark stuff the other day from Michaels, and it glows so faintly you have to STARE at it for a minute before you can make out the faint glow... quite useless.

little girls everywhere will not assault their fathers to make this. Cos' no story about unicorns can ever be printed with just plain old inc anymore.

Wouldn't the "glow dust" clog up the printer jets? Or is it so fine that it would actually pass through.

The next step could be to print on one of those iron on t-shirt things and start making some sweet glow in the dark shirts, lol.

Ok, so I've bitched about this in a few previous posts, and I hate hopping on the soap box, but here goes again:

PLEASE STOP LINKING TO YOUR OWN ARTICLES

That's what the tag is for at the top, to string together similar posts, but does every post need 2-4 tags? Your subject matter ranges so much, half the time these tag's send us to the article we clicked through.

The whole point of linking while blogging is for you to reference something helpful in relation to what you've linked and support your "editorial". So in this case, for instance "glowing ink" might take us to an amazon page with buyable ink, or "glow in the dark" powder would take us to a page with the powder. Instead we get a litany of your linked pages followed by the only link that matters to your post: the article link.

Most glow in the dark powders are non toxic but check the label idiots! Its the ink that would probably kill ya. And no, eating it will not make your poop glow in the dark, water cancels the chemical reaction that makes it glow.

@gregh200

You mean the glow 'dusk'? I miss the old days when illiterate people couldn't edit their videos with graphics and upload them for the entire world to see.

This belongs on the who gives a shit section

Useless? I say not. Wait till my college professor gets one of my papers :-)

Or if you are trying to get a highly competitive job, print your resume with it. It will get noticed. (Of course do all the other little things to make it more noticeable.)

Did anyone else notice that the picture of it "glowing" is neither the same size nor the same pattern as the printed sheet?

I'm fairly certain the glow dust would just clog the ink portals on the cartridge.

Oneon1isto says:

PLEASE STOP LINKING TO YOUR OWN ARTICLES

exactly. it is godawfully annoying. i was bitching and bitching about it for awhile until it seemed that i was the only one that was highly annoyed by it.

not to mention every single word linked inline... is also linked in the "READ MORE" box on the bottom of every article. the "READ MORE" box however isn't incredibly annoying.

@mwshots: First, the picture looks like black outlining of the glow-in-the--dark ink. Second, the entire point of mixing it with the liquid and heating it up dissolves the dust into the ink.

The "heat it up until the dust dissolves" is another flag pointing at some sort of hoax. None of the glow-in-the-dark powders that I'm aware of are water soluble (most are essentially ceramics: zinc sulfide for the "old style" and Strontium Aluminate (I think) for the newer stuff.) The web searches for "glow dust" turn up silica based things used in ceramics and glasswork.

Now, there are plenty of fluorescent (glows under UV) dyes that are soluble, and might go into ink with few problems and be useful in their own right, but ... that's different.

(The ink cartridge they used in the video looked like one of those with the built-in printhead (HP, some canon, etc), so if it did clog, the loss would be relatively small...)

The "heat it up until the dust dissolves" is another flag pointing at some sort of hoax. None of the glow-in-the-dark powders that I'm aware of are water soluble (most are essentially ceramics: zinc sulfide for the "old style" and Strontium Aluminate (I think) for the newer stuff.) The web searches for "glow dust" turn up silica based things used in ceramics and glasswork.

Now, there are plenty of fluorescent (glows under UV) dyes that are soluble, and might go into ink with few problems and be useful in their own right, but ... that's different.

(The ink cartridge they used in the video looked like one of those with the built-in printhead (HP, some canon, etc), so if it did clog, the loss would be relatively small...)

I am doubting it would clog a printer jet, I use ceramic glazes in spray botles all the time, Filled with glazes full of oxides, and lots of other junk basically ground rock and other elements. Sometimes even clay bodies themselves.
The glazes settle very quickly and need to be stirred constantly or the solids seperate from the water. I think heating the solution might slow this effect so you won't have to shake your printer cartridge to print something glow in the dark. I would suggest doing so though, just to be on the safe side to avoid clogging.

@mpercy:
Everluminous products co is one of the biggest manufacturers of glow in the dark products,
The main products are rare earth-activated silicate aluminate photoluminescent pigment
and its related products. After absorbing light for 10-30 minutes, it can glow for more
than 12 hours in the dark. It is non-toxic, non-radioactive, and completely safe for the
using of most lines.
The photoluminescent pigment can be used in many transparent or translucent mediums,
such as plastic, paint, glaze, ink, glass, printing slurry etc. To produce luminous products.
With the good indicating and beautifying effect in darkness, it can be widely used in
emergency signs, pass way signs, switches, enamel nameplate, road signs, toys, handicraft,
clock, etc.

Everluminous glow in the dark powder photoluminescent powder luminous powder
Everluminous glow in the dark pigment photoluminescent pigment luminous pigment
Everluminous glow in the dark paint photoluminescent paint luminous paint
Everluminous glow in the dark photoluminescent luminous ceramic tile
Everluminous glow in the dark photoluminescent luminous ceramic glaze
Everluminous glow in the dark photoluminescent luminous tape film sheet
Everluminous glow in the dark photoluminescent luminous aryl board

Okay quoting:

"BY MWSHOTS AT 06/18/07 10:27 PM
Did anyone else notice that the picture of it "glowing" is neither the same size nor the same pattern as the printed sheet?"

MWSHOTS has the right idea. Look closer at the printout.

1 Unless the guy had preprinted paper this is a hoax.

2 If not preprinted paper how heck does he print 2 forms of black ?

3 That printer isn't expensive enough to be able to designate selected ink tanks to print from

4 After lights out where is the 2nd line of printed text?

5 Hard to tell about the fonts but the point size appears off on the lower print of the glow representation

7 You only see the finished printout not the Start-to-End process

8 Too many camera angles and zoom factors. If you want to document keep the angles, orientations, zoom and fiddling with the setup to none or minimal -HANDS OFF and keep it ROLLING

9 Test could of had a light setup over the printer charging the ink as it was coming out of the printer and not touch anything at all and just switch the lights off. Resulting in non-tampering of the documentation process and possibly a faint light-gradient look as the first part of the print out would have more time to charge that the last of the print out.

10 I have tried sending a page a second time through printers laser and inkjet alike. Inkjets are the worst to get lined up and for close proximity printing it's hit an miss on "filling in the blanks" also due to ion charging of the paper with laser printing text is often offset/blurry do to residual charges left @ post printing and 2nd run which offsets toner application while passing through the drum. Try preprinted forms then second pass adding text in the little boxes from an MS Access/Excel sheet. Though this point isn't about precise placement of the test text but more the absence of the text thereof

[For those wondering why the heck would someone want to do a 2 pass printing job... any why bother writing all this wasting time? Here are the reasons why:

A) One of a few reasons, document/inventory authenticity and control.. sure they could make a copy of the form and print, but not everyone prints with holographic ink (transfers) and UV ink, forgeries would be hard indeed. ]

B) Just because I felt like it

C) Just because I can :P