It may depend on your ink and color you are printing. If it is black ink, then you can leave it. If it is a light color it may transfer with your ink or even change the color. The ink we use is Cranfield water soluble (it is actually a hybrid that cleans with soap and water and paint thinner). I know when people use a Sharpie with our ink, it will actually transfer the marker onto the paper. The solution is to clean the block with glass cleaner and re-ink it. If it still transfers, do it again and it will be weaker. You may need to ink , print and clean it a few times before it stops transferring the marker onto the paper; eventually it will stop. The only way to really know if to try it yourself. If it's a light color ink I am printing, I might be inclined to clean it off first.
That is not sealed linoleum. On expensive linoleum it makes the top coat gummy or sticky. And the cleaned area is now not shiny like the rest of the floor. Now how would I repair the floor's top coat?
Thank you, the video was very useful 😘
Will leaving the marker on the block mess with printing? I want to know if I should even bother cleaning it off
It may depend on your ink and color you are printing. If it is black ink, then you can leave it. If it is a light color it may transfer with your ink or even change the color. The ink we use is Cranfield water soluble (it is actually a hybrid that cleans with soap and water and paint thinner). I know when people use a Sharpie with our ink, it will actually transfer the marker onto the paper. The solution is to clean the block with glass cleaner and re-ink it. If it still transfers, do it again and it will be weaker. You may need to ink , print and clean it a few times before it stops transferring the marker onto the paper; eventually it will stop.
The only way to really know if to try it yourself. If it's a light color ink I am printing, I might be inclined to clean it off first.
@@BrianJohnson-gl7ph thank you for the help sir
That is not sealed linoleum. On expensive linoleum it makes the top coat gummy or sticky. And the cleaned area is now not shiny like the rest of the floor. Now how would I repair the floor's top coat?
This is a demo for battleship linoleum used for carving and making art prints not flooring; this is not the video you are looking for ...
@@BrianJohnson-gl7ph thank you for the reply and letting me know.