Ink
We use
two kinds of ink to print the News & Record. Our black ink is petroleum
based and is classed non-hazardous by the EPA. Because of the petroleum
content, the ink never completely dries, which explains why your fingertips
might become dirty after handling a newspaper. The natural oil on your
hands attracts the oil on the paper. One way to lessen the impact of
ink rub-off is to wash your hands before your read the newspaper.
Our colored
ink (blue, red, and yellow) is soy based, which does dry almost completely.
Different combinations of densities of screened dots of all four colors
can produce all of the four colors in the four-color printing process.
The ink,
supplied by U.S. Ink, is delivered in tankers several times per month.
The trucks park next to the News & Record building and use hoses
to pump the ink into tanks inside the building. Each of the two black
ink tanks can hold approximately 4,319 gallons. Each of the colored
ink tanks can hold about 1,000 gallons.
The News
& Record uses about 4,321 gallons of ink per month.
To learn
more about the ink that we use, visit U.S.
Ink.
