Josh's Acid Experiments

Here is my initial attempt at applying chemicals to a printed image. Firstly we had to make sure that we printed from an inkjet printer. The main difference between laser and ink printers are the type of cartridges each printer uses. Laser printers use toner cartridges while ink cartridges are used by inkjet printers. also Laser printers, and in turn toner cartridges, are faster in printing versus the inkjet printer. When it comes to the quality of the printed product the laser printer and toner cartridge in combination will give you higher quality. The precision of a laser printer is hard to match with an inkjet printer. Once printed with an ink printer, the paper may also tend to be more likely to get smudged or ruined while the ink is still wet.This part was the most important to us we need the printed image to allow the chemicals to affect the ink of paper. In this experiment I applied bleach, vinegar and nail varnish. This chemicals all affected the image differently. The bleach completely eroded through the ink on the image, removing all information and leaving white marks. the vinegar started to slightly erode the ink but not on the same wavelength as the bleach. The nail varnish affected the image the least. However, when applying together i got the above effect which works very well with our intentions of illustrating the acidification of the ocean.