How to make your printer’s ink glow in the dark
Submitted by admin on Tuesday, 3 June 20086 Comments
This is a very cool trick which involves mixing ink with glow dust and refilling the cartridges with it. How come I never thought of doing something like this?
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cool trick, but doesn’t it seem photoshopped?
Very interested for school projects. Is there any more details. mixing rate types etc. To get me started. Please help!!!
Hi David,
It’s not that hard, but you gotta use an older printer which has bigger nozzles (holes in the cartridge), as the new ones clog up very quickly and stop printing, and your cartridge becomes pretty much useless.
Also, you must not put in too much glow dust or it’ll also clog any cartridge (the ink will be too thick). Experimenting would be perfect, but that’s if you have a few cartridges to spare.
If you don’t, just follow the instructions in the video and it should work (again, not on newer printers, but maybe you can find an old working one).
Where to buy the glow dust (contact them first by email or phone as they may be out of business now): http://store.fastcommerce.com/GlowGlassLLC/home.html or https://www.creativeglassguild.co.uk/catalog/index.php?cPath=68_594 .
You can actually make it yourself, but it involves dealing with toxic materials, so I better not explain it…
Oh, if you can’t buy it online, this dust is used by artists to paint and by constructors/decorators to decorate buildings/rooms and for glass fusing. So you could find it in any artistry or construction store, it’s called “Glow Glass”.
Good Luck!
For anyone who wants to make this stuff, here’s another link to a site that sells powder:
http://glowinc.com/SearchResult.aspx?CategoryID=3
Be carefull to buy the dust that is compatible with water-based products (it’s written in the decription of the product).
Total rubbish - FAKE.
I spent the best part of a day trying to get this to work. With differnet colours, printers and powders from different suppliers.
It just does not work.
Also when you try to microwave after just 10 seconds (800 watt microwave) it just boils over and fills your microwave with ink.
DO NOT TRY THIS IT DOES NOT WORK.
I was going to make this as a commercial product as I already produce many glow in the dark products. So if anyone knows a real way of doing this let me know.
You can see this is fake - The camera is moving around slightly when showing with the light on, But when the light turns off, The camera is absolutely motionless, which means it is just a picture.
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