Remember, you may be a supply clerk, the kind who couldn't remember whether you ordered pens with blue ink or black ink -- but you can be a god for ten minutes when you make your own soda.
With no access to colored inks, prisoners use watered-down black ink to create shadows and depth a technique called "fine-line" tattooing.
They then turned the pages upside down and wrote over the ancient text in jet-black ink.
Since signatures can now be printed on correspondence, if you hand-sign with black ink, it may not be clear you actually signed it.
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Before HP brought us the low-priced ink-jet printer all office printing was black.
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The good news is that they're being cut at a much slower rate than before, so it's still entirely reasonable to believe that black ink is in sight -- particularly if they've got a killer 2010 lineup in store.
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Call it proof that there's a global wireless karma equilibrium, if you will, that needs to be maintained: China Unicom has warned that its net profit for 2009 will be down a whopping 50 percent, while one of its doppelgangers across the Sea of Japan -- NTT DoCoMo -- has encountered exactly the opposite fortune on news that it has posted a 48 percent year-over-year improvement in black ink.
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The DX, by contrast, has black-and-white electronic ink display built for easy readability.
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Increasingly, though, his energies were devoted to mixed-media drawings in black chalk, watercolour, pen and ink, often depicting Parisian street life: drinkers, gossips, entertainers, railway passengers.
Pebble makes a smartwatch with a black-and-white screen similar to the E-Ink display on your Kindle.
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