Re: [APML] O.T. - - printing for UV light

["Monte Wilson" <montezinho@bigpond.com>]

Contact Day-Glo in Cleveland. www.dayglo.com.

They have a patent on those inks and when I visited their labs I had a
discussion about these inks. I vaguely recall something about setting
changes so these prints were possible. I know they are aware of the problem
you have mentioned.

Monte



----- Original Message -----
From: "Stosh" <stosh@ptd.net>
To: <astro-photo@seds.org>
Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 12:54 PM
Subject: [APML] O.T. - - printing for UV light


> Greetings,
> Sorry for the O.T. post.
>
> I was wondering if any light/printing experts out there could throw some
> advice my way.  I'm interested in decorating my already 70's basement
> with a wall mural featuring stars, constellations, and astro photos.
> I'm no artist, so I won't be painting.  I'd like to use fluorescent inks
> that are available for inkjet printers.  The problem is that these
> prints can't work the same way as a normal print would work under
> daylight.  My prints will be viewed with UV black light.  Since the
> fluorescent inks actually emit light, I think I can assume that the
> colors will work similiarly to colors on a monitor (RGB).
>
> Does anyone know how to tell a printer to change the color scheme from
> absorption/reflection mode to emission mode??? :)  The images are
> already stored and displayed on the monitor as RGB, but the printer
> converts to whatever it does.  Maybe there's a way to use PW to somehow
> convert an image to an "inverse" of printer ink format, so when the
> printer converts, it will be back to RGB???
>
> I'm not sure, but I might be asking a lot of this project.  I realize
> that the pictures will look silly under white light, but that's OK.
> Actually, they even have "invisible" UV pigments that are white or "off
> white" under normal light, but then show their magic color when exposed
> to UV.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> thanks,
> Stosh
>
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