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I remember the mess from my commercial inkjet dev days - that ink wouldn't travel far to correctly mark the product, but it would go a looooong way out of it's way to wreck another shirt ...
I think my least favorite part was handling materials compatibility with the inks - the damned aliphatic hydrocarbon base was a PITA to deal with. And what it was OK with the solvent based ink would eat. 
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Never throw anything away, Griff
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OriginalGriff wrote: that ink wouldn't travel far to correctly mark the product
It's always been noteworthy that our water-based inks adhere to skin and clothing a lot better than they do paper.OriginalGriff wrote: solvent based ink
Definite ick factor there. Fortunately we haven't done solvent-based inks in a long time; the fumes were horrible.
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Not fun, but better than MEK. Didn't have the drying time though, but you could use them in chocolate factories.
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We tested with MEK for a while. One of the programmers here had his lab moved to another part of the building the fumes were so bad.
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Yeah - and chocolate has an "affinity" for it: carry a CIJ through a chocolate factory and the whole lot tastes of it. Fortunately we never got involved - too much hassle for the profit we'd have made.
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Please stop whining and rewrite from scratch the whole stuff!
(just kidding, Gary, just kidding...)
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As much as I'd love too, this stuff supports a lot of older equipment that isn't available here at our plant any longer. I wouldn't have any way to test it, other than shipping it off to a customer. My bosses frown on that sort of thing  .
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Quote: to test it, other than shipping it off to a customer. My bosses sort of frown on that sort of thing
Just tell them that this is the way Microsoft does it all the time! 
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I once did a project for a purveyor of very expensive ink that measured the volume of individual droplets of ink. The units of measure were picoliters.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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The drops our current systems produce are 11.4 pL (picoliters) and 9.8 pL. We actually count the things as a means of measuring ink usage; unsigned __int64, anyone?
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Fun stuff. 
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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I can't really discuss why, but I thought I'd mention it, because if I don't, nobody else would.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Dang, beat me to it. 
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See? Being the first to come up with something is a sign of brilliance.
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And so modest.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Quote: if I don't, nobody else would
You and... your wife, of course.
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She's pretty resistent to admitting my brilliance.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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This is a common misconception about wives!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Same here. 
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Paula Bean. Any relation to "Mr." ?
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... I haven't heard from him since! 
Ba-tish!
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
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Why do farts smell?
So deaf people can enjoy them too.
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I use the Yoda approach[^] 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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Why don't blind people skydive?
Scares the sh*t out of the dog!
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too!
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