Read Ebook: Paper and Printing Recipes A Handy Volume of Practical Recipes Concerning the Every-Day Business of Stationers Printers Binders and the Kindred Trades by Ford John Sawtelle

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COLORS FOR HOLDING BRONZE.

Red and green inks are good colors for holding bronze, when you are not working with size or varnish.

STENCIL INK.

A good and cheap stencil ink in cakes is said to be obtained by mixing lampblack with fine clay, a little gum arabic or dextrine, and enough water to bring the whole to a satisfactory consistence.

COPYING INK TO BE USED WITHOUT PRESS OR WATER.

Well mix three pints of jet-black writing ink and one pint of glycerine. This, if used on glazed paper, will not dry for hours, and will yield one or two fair, neat, dry copies, by simple pressure of the hand, in any good letter copy-book. The writing should not be excessively fine, nor the strokes uneven or heavy. To prevent "setting off," the leaves after copying should be removed by blotting-paper. The copies and the originals are neater than where water is used.

WHITE INK.

There is really no such article as "white ink." A true ink is a solution of some substance or combination of substances in liquid. Colored liquids, however, may be prepared with various substances not soluble in the liquids available for writing fluids. A "white ink" may be made by rubbing the finest zinc white, or white lead, with a dilute solution of gum arabic. It must be stirred up whenever the pen or brush is dipped into it.

PURPLE HEKTOGRAPH INK.

To make the purple hektograph ink:--Dissolve 1 part of methyl-violet in 8 parts of water, and add 1 part of glycerine. Gently warm the whole for about an hour, then allow to cool and add 1/4 part alcohol. It is said, on good authority, that the alcohol may be advantageously omitted, and that the following proportions will give even better results than the above, viz: Methyl-violet, 1 part; water, 7 parts; glycerine, 2 parts. This formula, it is said, produces an ink which is less liable to sink into the paper.

A DARK RED INDELIBLE INK.

An indelible red ink for marking linen may be made from the following formula:

Prepare three separate solutions:

With this moisten the spot to be marked, and dry and smooth with a hot flat iron.

Trace the letters with this fluid, permit to dry, and finally apply solution.

TO MAKE A CARMINE.

Take 9 ozs. carbonate of soda and dissolve in 27 quarts of rain-water, to which add 8 ozs. of citric acid. When boiling, add 1-1/2 lbs. of best cochineal, ground fine, and boil for one and a quarter hours. Filter and set the liquor aside until cool. Then boil the clear liquor for ten minutes with 9-1/2 ozs. of alum. Draw off, and allow the mixture to settle for two or three days. Again draw off the liquor, and wash the sediment with clear, cold, soft water, and then dry the sediment.

VIOLET INK.

To make violet ink:--Put 8 ozs. logwood into 3 pints of water, and boil until half the water has gone off in steam. The rest will be good ink, if strained, and supplemented by 1-1/2 ozs. gum, and 2-1/2 ozs. alum. Chloride of tin may be used instead of alum. Another plan is to mix, in hot water, 1 oz. cudbear and 1-1/2 ozs. pearlash; let it stand 12 hours; strain; add 3 ozs. gum and 1 oz. spirit.

INDELIBLE INK.

A cheap indelible ink can be made by the following recipe:--Dissolve in boiling water 20 parts of potassa, 10 parts of fine-cut leather chips, and 5 parts of flowers of sulphur are added, and the whole heated in an iron kettle until it is evaporated to dryness. Then the heat is continued until the mass becomes soft, care being taken that it does not ignite. The pot is now removed from the fire, allowed to cool, water is added, the solution strained and preserved in bottles. This ink will flow readily from the pen.

HOW TO REMOVE INK-STAINS FROM THE HANDS.

Ripe tomatoes will remove ink or other stains from the hands.

TREATMENT OF INDIA INK DRAWINGS.

An easy method for rendering drawings in Indian ink insensible to water, and thus preventing the ink from running when the drawing has to be colored and the lines are very thick:--To the water in which the ink has to be rubbed, is added a weak solution of bichromate of potash of about 2 per cent. The animal gum contained in the Indian ink combines with the bichrome, and becomes insoluble under the influence of light.

BLACK INK.

To make a black ink for fountain pens, add 1 part of nigrosein to 50 parts of hot water; agitate well at intervals; let it cool, and after twelve hours filter through a fine linen cloth, and add a few drops of carbolic acid to each pint. This may be diluted with three times its volume of water, and still form a good ink for ordinary pens.

INK FOR RUBBER STAMPS.

Aniline , 16 parts; boiling distilled water, 80 parts; glycerine, 7 parts; molasses, 3 parts.

CARDINAL INK.

Improved cardinal ink for draughtsmen is made as follows:--Triturate 1 gram of pure carmine with 15 grams of acetate ammonia solution and an equal quantity of distilled water, in a porcelain mortar, and allow the whole to stand for some time. In this way a portion of the alumina which is combined with the carmine dye is taken up by the acetate acid of the ammonia salt and separates as precipitate, while the pure pigment of the cochineal remains dissolved in the half saturated ammonia. It is now filtered and a few drops of pure white sugar syrup added to thicken it. In this way an excellent red drawing ink is obtained, which holds its color a long time. A solution of gum arabic cannot be employed to thicken this ink, as it still contains some acetic acid, which would coagulate the bassorine, one of the natural constituents of gum arabic.

AN ARTICLE FOR LABELING BOTTLES.

A very useful article for labeling bottles containing substances which would destroy ordinary labels consists of a mixture of ammonium fluoride, barium sulphate and sulphuric acid, the proportions for its manufacture being: barium sulphate, 3 parts; ammonium fluoride, 1 part; and sulphuric acid enough to decompose the fluoride and make a mixture of semi-fluid consistency. This mixture, when brought in contact with a glass surface with a common pen, at once etches a rough surface on the parts it comes in contact with. The philosophy of the action is the decomposition of the ammonium fluoride by the acid, which attacks the glass; the barium sulphate is inert, and is simply used to prevent the spreading of the markings. The mixture must be kept in bottles coated on the inside with paraffine or wax.

HOW TO REMOVE ANILINE INK FROM THE HANDS.

Aniline inks are now in common use, especially in connection with the various gelatine tablets for multiplying copies of written matter. Upon the hands it makes annoying stains, difficult of removal by water or acids. They may be easily washed out by using a mixture of alcohol 3 parts, and glycerine 1 part.

AN INK WHICH CANNOT BE ERASED.

TO MAKE BLACK INK.

Lactate of iron, 15 grains; powdered gum arabic, 75 grains; powdered sugar, half a drachm; gallic acid, 9 grains; hot water, 3 ounces.

Black Ink for Stencils.

The following is commended for the preparation of a black ink or paste for use with stencils:--Boneblack, 1 lb.; molasses, 8 ozs.; sulphuric acid, 4 ozs.; dextrine, 2 ozs.; water sufficient. Mix the acid with about two ounces of water, and add it to the other ingredients, previously mixed together. When the effervescence has subsided, enough water is to be added to form a paste of convenient consistence.

MARKING INK.

Put two pennyworths' lunar caustic into half a tablespoonful of gin, and in a day or two the ink is fit for use. The linen to be marked must first be wet with a strong solution of common soda, and be thoroughly dried before the ink is used upon it. The color will be faint at first, but by exposure to the sun or the fire it will become quite black and very durable.

BLUE MARKING INK FOR WHITE GOODS.

Crystallized nitrate of silver, dram 1 Water of ammonia, drams 3 Crystallized carbonate of soda, dram 1 Powdered gum arabic, drams 1-1/2 Sulphate of copper, grains 30 Distilled water, drams 4

Dissolve the silver salt in the ammonia; dissolve the carbonate of soda, gum arabic, and sulphate of copper in the distilled water, and mix the two solutions together.

BLUE-BLACK WRITING PAPER.

Take of Aleppo galls, bruised, 9 ozs.; bruised cloves, 2 drachms; cold water, 80 ozs.; sulphate of iron, 3 ozs.; sulphuric acid, 70 minims; indigo-paste, 4 drachms. Place the galls and the cloves in a gallon bottle, pour upon them the water, and let them macerate, with frequent agitation, for a fortnight. Press, and filter through paper into another gallon bottle. Next, put in the sulphate of iron, dissolve it, add the acid, and shake the whole briskly. Lastly, add the indigo-paste, mix well, and filter again through paper. Keep the ink in well-corked bottles.

COLORING METALS.

Metals may be rapidly colored by covering their surfaces with a thin layer of sulphuric acid. According to the thickness of the layer and the durability of its action, there may be obtained tints of gold, copper, carmine, chestnut-brown, clear and aniline blue and reddish-white. These tints are all brilliant, and if care be taken to scour the metallic objects before treating them with the acid, the color will suffer nothing from the polishing.

FOR CHEAPLY GILDING BRONZES, ETC.

A mixture for cheaply gilding bronzes, gas-fittings, etc.:--Two and one-half pounds cyanide of potash, five ounces carbonate of potash and two ounces cyanate of potass, the whole diluted in five pints of water, containing in solution one-fourth ounce chloride of gold. The mixture must be used at boiling heat, and, after it has been applied, the gilt surface must be varnished over.

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