<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><div>Neither. It prints ink with specific light-absorption and reflection qualities. The color is generated in the visual cortex and is partially the function of the type and intensity of ambient light and surrounding objects. </div><div><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:11pt; text-align:left; color:black; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 3pt"><span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span> spike <<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net">spike66@att.net</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Reply-To: </span> ExI chat list <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span> Monday, June 8, 2015 at 5:53 PM<br><span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span> 'ExI chat list' <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span> Re: [ExI] TECH ANSWER<br></div><div><br></div><div xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 14 (filtered medium)"><style><!--
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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"> extropy-chat [<a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org">mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Adrian Tymes<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, June 08, 2015 2:43 PM<br><b>To:</b> ExI chat list<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] TECH ANSWER<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p>On Jun 8, 2015 2:06 PM, "William Flynn Wallace" <<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com">foozler83@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Q - does the printer print in black and white?<br>><br>> A - no - it prints only black - the white is in the paper<o:p></o:p></p><p>Unless it's electronic ink, which prints pixels that can later be black or white.<o:p></o:p></p><p>Or it is a 3D printer with no paper substrate, in which case the white must be in what it prints.<o:p></o:p></p><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Ja. It also depends on how you define white. Some substances are reflective in some frequency bands and absorptive in others. So ink can be simultaneously white and black, depending on you how you look at it.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">spike<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div>_______________________________________________
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