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New Ink for Printers
A new in distilled or river water. It should be flowink for printers has been invented by Professor Artus, and Mr. Fleckstein, a master-printer at Lichtenhain, which ink is said to be a complete success. The composition of it is as ing in the pen, not spreading on the stone; capable of forming delicate traces, and very black, to show its delineations. The most essential quality of the ink is to sink well into follows: Venetian turpentine, 4 ounces; the stone, so as to reproduce the most delicate fluid soap, 5 ounces; rectified oleine, 2 ounces; outlines of the drawing, and to afford a great burnt soot, 3 ounces; Paris blue (ferrocyanic many impressions. It must, therefore, be acid), ounce; oxalic acid, 4 ounce; distilled able to resist the acid with which the stone is water, 1/2 ounce. The mixing process of this moistened in the preparation, without letting any of its greasy matter escape.