Beautiful toner explosion

Flickr's Makenosound shot this gorgeous photo of an exploded four-color toner cartridge, noting, "Accidents should always be this beautiful." CMYK (via Kottke)

[#1 posted by Gary61 , September 18, 2008 7:38 AM]

Taste the Rainbow! (giggle giggle)

[#2 posted by BrandG , September 18, 2008 8:07 AM]

I once opened a belligerent 1lb. bag of Mike&Ikes with a tad too much force. While it didn't look like this, it was a very pretty explosion.

[#3 posted by prion , September 18, 2008 8:21 AM]

I used to work at Kinko's and the color copier repairman did several editions of "artwork" this way. Just sprinkle on some of your favorite colors and run it through - instant rainbow masterpiece.

[#4 posted by cycle23 , September 18, 2008 8:45 AM]

It does suck when Mike and Ike go on a bender.

[#5 posted by Lizzie , September 18, 2008 8:53 AM]

I hope this doesn't sound too crass, because I'm genuinely not making a joke here- but when it comes to finding beautiful rainbows in unexpected places this reminds me of when my friend's dog ate an entire box of crayons.

[#6 posted by James David , September 18, 2008 10:40 AM]

Printeresting (a new favorite blog of mine) has a very cool photograph of where a printing press used to be, and the splatter it left behind. The photo is called "Ghost of a Printing Press."

[#7 posted by Chorske , September 18, 2008 11:50 AM]

Great concept for a Bravia ad...

[#8 posted by deejayqueue , September 18, 2008 11:56 AM]

that's a really great picture... usually the toner mess ends up being a muddy brown color.

My favorite thing to do was to laminate crayon shavings.

[#9 posted by Lars Haeh , September 18, 2008 12:06 PM]

I noticed something very beautiful hidden in an old Epson inkjet I was stripping for stepper motors and IR sensors: To clean the print heads it sprayed them onto this ~2CM thick piece of blotter paper that runs along the bottom of the printer. Over the years of its operation it had sprayed quite a bit of ink onto that paper, and, though chromatography, the ink had spread almost over to the other side, creating a brilliant rainbow effect as the colours separated.

[#10 posted by IWood , September 18, 2008 2:26 PM]

*snort*

*sniiifffff*

There is nothing more irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of a toner binge.

[#11 posted by AirPillo , September 18, 2008 4:30 PM]

I really need to learn how to do awesome macro photography without a proper macro lens.

At least until hell freezes over and I can afford a low-end DSLR with all the features I'd like (changeable lenses, exposure bracketing, external flash, and probably other things I haven't thought of yet).

[cookie to anyone who can give me a tip]

[#12 posted by kip w , September 18, 2008 5:39 PM]

I was working in a department with a copier in the 80s, and discovered the resource that is used toner. There was an old Thermofax machine there, which could roll paper through while it applied heat. I'd sprinkle toner between two sheets of paper and put it through this machine. Most times it was uninteresting, but a few times I got swell patterns out of it.

[#13 posted by Destructor , September 18, 2008 6:28 PM]

This is a similar accident that happened to me a few years back:

http://flickr.com/photos/znaddanz/119264317/

[#14 posted by fenderbasher , September 18, 2008 8:33 PM]

Heh, I work for a printer company; we call those "toner bombs". Trust me, toner will NOT come out of clothing. Always funny when it happens to somebody else!