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Rave On. Blacklight Ink

We discovered a cool Union Ink product this week called Black Light Clear. It is transparent when printed but glows under blacklight. We printed a normal ink and then printed the clear over it. It glows under blacklight. Rave On!

For $20 you can buy a blacklight to test your blacklight printing. The blacklight will also test for ethylene glycol poisoning (urine will glow) and LSD (quite ironically LSD will glow and common substitutes will not.)

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  1. In the early 60s Andy Warhol made a few soft-porn silkscreen paintings that must have required ink like this – the image was invisible in normal light but visible in black light. See Marco Livingstone, “Do It Yourself: Notes on Warhol’s Techniques,” in the MoMA Warhol Retrospective catalog (1989).

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