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"john hamilton" wrote in message ...
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 I'm a bit out of date but one of the more headachy solvents I used to hate and smell in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.

Clutch-head security screws. Saw them on TW in the 70s I think.
Never saw them in the wild for years, now they are a common sight fastening
public toilet cubical panels together.

--
Graham.

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