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"john hamilton" wrote in message
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After reading our newspapers we end up with an oily dirt on our hands,
but not after reading the magazine supplements that come inside the
newspapers or the television guide magazines.

I wondering what the significance is with regard to using sheets from the
magazines with regard to wrapping food. I know you are not suppose to use
newspaper. But is it alright to use the magazine sheets for wrapping
food? Also are they both alright to use in garden composting? This
question is also relevant when using dampened magazine sheets to clean
down food surfaces and clean windows etc.

Would anyone know how to explain simply how the method of printing is
done differently between the magazines and the newspapers? Thanks for
any advice.

I think you only need to use your nose: though with widespread colour the
line between magazine and newspaper is increasingly blurred. Most
magazines smell horrible, and many give me a headache, therefore the ink
isn't dry, and you don't want it in your food. (Some may be done on
photocopiers, but even cured plastic toner can transfer on to say over
head projector slides if you leave them stacked together too long.) I'm
a bit out of date but one of the more headachy solvents I used to hate and
smell in magazines was cyclohexanone. There are large numbers of inks and
formulations as there is still a touch of alchemy involved. Many
magazines still have ink that doesn't dry completely and you can quite
often get a reversed image if you insert a piece of plastic and weigh it
down for a while. You probably don't smudge it because most of the time
your fingers are on the border of a magazine whereas you tend to touch the
ink when you are folding the newspaper to read it.

Shiny magazine paper is a pain to anyone who likes to make notes in
margins etc. as biro smudges all over the place and pencil either won't
write on it or rips it to pieces.

Years ago they did feature non dirty newspaper ink in Tomorrow's World.
Like everything else in that prog, it never caught on.

I don't have any trouble with the Daily Mail, the ink does not stain my
fingers and I have used it for wrapping apples when putting them in storage.

Alan




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