The best printer to use is daisy wheel or dot-matrix with the cartridge
ribbon equipped with ethanol-resistant ink.
Joan Jass, Milwaukee Public Museum, [log in to unmask]
At 09:53 AM 02/01/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>Greetings,
>I have noticed that museums place printed labels inside vials of ethanol
>with preserved specimens. But when I placed a label printed with an ink jet
>printer into ethanol, the ink immediately started to dissolve away. Can our
>curator friends please reveal what secret ink they are using? Maybe a laser
>printer? Thanks.
>
>Aydin
>