The problems were:
- It needed to be ordered in by screen printing staff in advance
- There's no guarantee that any ink I buy to avoid waiting for the ink will work on the printing beds in college.
- To avoid the luminous ink setting into the paper and stop being luminous, you have to overprint the luminous ink on top of a pre-printed poster.
- Not only this, but you have to use fairly thick stock for the best effects, which can prove quite expensive.
- Even when it's printed you then need to charge it with some special sort of light (I think it was black light or something along the lines of that).
- You need to store it under certain conditions for it to retain its luminosity.
- It needs to be displayed in certain conditions for it to show its luminosity.
Given that I found all this out on a Friday, 6 days before not only the brief deadline but the module deadline, I think it would be far too ambitious of me to experiment with not only using the screen printing facilities at LCA for the first time, but using luminous ink for the first time in my life, especially given how it would take a few days for the ink to arrive. I think my time could be better spent elsewhere on the module.
I do feel a little disappointed in my decision to not actually produce the poster, but had this been the first breif in the module as apposed to last, more time would've been available to me and I'd have felt much more comfortable in attempting to do it. I just don't think it's an appropriate process for me to be using at this particular time.
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