Against the variegated white shades of its paper background, the Codex's colours are elegantly restricted and make great use of inks and metallic pigments.
Giger worked predominantly in inks and oils at first.
The nanowires are contained in inks which can be spread across the screen to provide a grid that produces an electrical signal when touched.
Special inks, watermarking, and other "covert" technologies (meaning those invisible to the naked eye) are becoming more popular as a result.
Adherents of the style of Ni Zan tended to prefer dry inks that made their compositions look almost like charcoal drawings, rather than paintings.
This is because it is using additive-manufacturing machines, popularly known as three-dimensional (3D) printers, which run unattended day and night, seven days a week.The printers require an occasional visit from a supervisor to top them up with the powdered materials they use as their "inks", or to remove a completed item, but apart from that they can be left on their own.
The inks of antiquity were made of soot: nearly pure carbon, the same stuff that the charred papyri now consist of.
He also argues that most industrially manufactured modern inks are too weak in both their colour saturation and durability.The reputation of Noodler's inks recently caught the eye of Nicholas Masluk, a graduate student at Yale University's physics department.
But mostly it is because 3D-printer manufacturers require users to buy materials from them and mark up the price, as with the inks for 2D inkjet printers.
In fact, once one team inks a big star, the club it is likely to surpass faces enormous pressure to sign an even bigger one leaving both of them right back where they started, and many millions poorer.
Although it seems unlikely that one of his customers would become the target of such high-tech forgery, Mr Tardif wants to maintain his bulletproof reputation and feels compelled to create new inks that can withstand all known attacks.History holds a lesson for innovators of ink.
