What were you up to during the outage?!

  • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)
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    93 months ago

    I listened to my intrusive thoughts and filled a cheap fountain pen with (dye-based) printer ink.

    I hoped for the darkest black, but it actually looks gray when used with a pen :(

    But yeah, it works. It feathers and bleeds through a lot on cheap paper, but it works. By that I mean that it bleeds even through 120g/m2 printer paper. Maybe I could try drying it a bit first…
    Might look good with cyan.

    • nickwitha_k (he/him)
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      43 months ago

      Oh no. Now I’m thinking about whether I can make fountain pen ink work in my ecotank printer.

      • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)
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        43 months ago

        I doubt it.

        Although, I guess ecotank will have piezoelectric nozzles since they’re permanent, so there shouldn’t be a problem with how it behaves under heat, but viscosity (if that’s the right word) and particle size…

        Sounds like a bad idea.

        • nickwitha_k (he/him)
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          43 months ago

          Probably a terrible idea. I do also have a sacrificial HP in the garage to rip apart and try to implement a FOSS/OSHW controller for at some point. Maybe I’ll try with that eventually, supposing I can hack together a nozzle.