On Saturday we ventured to London for HP’s Instant Ink Print Party where were lucky enough to meet HP’s resident Inkologist Thom Brown who was visiting from the US to host some fun, interactive activities around inks and printing.
The event was held at Maggie and Rose which is a lovely intimate venue in Kensington and we were welcomed in the door and encouraged to dress up straight away.
After posing for a few photographs we got stuck into some scrummy lunch before the fun experiments got underway.
Thom wet everyone’s appetites with a fun trick (well it was really a science experiment, but I prefer to think it was magic) before we got to see what we were going to be doing.
Our first experiment was optical illusions and we were presented with various sheets of paper with different pictures on them and were instructed to stare at each one for 30 seconds.
The results were amazing, one saw looking away from pictures and they were suddenly projected onto the plain walls in completely different colours. Then there were lined pictures which used parallel lines but looked wonky until you knew what you were looking for.
Like all children, their favourite activities involved getting messy!
We used just three colours and managed to make all kinds of other colours just by mixing them up – Isaac was very proud to manage to make several colours including violet.
Then there was the target practice. The Ink-Jets in our HP Envy printer have to travel the equivalent distance of 30 storeys to get to the paper so have to be accurate. How accurate could we be with water droplets……..we didn’t do too bad but certainly not good enough.
We were also impressed that the inks didn’t run, as they are not water based.
The final activity was trying to draw a picture just using dots, just like the HP Printer does – it’s not as easy as it looks, but Isaac made a brilliant crown and Eliza’s picture is apparently a playground.
Once the activities had finished Thom, the Inkologist did some comparisons between HP Ink and some of their competitors and we were shocked to find out just how different they were. The HP ink doesn’t bleed into other colours like some do which creates sharper images.
We came away bursting with knowledge and set with some fun challenges. Keep an eye on my blog for more details!
I shall leave you with Thom and his fabulous short video all about Instant Ink!
wow what a great experience, love the dress ups and the different sorts of activities
That looks like such fun and I’d just love to be able to say my job was an “inkologist”! Such a good word!!
what a fantastic experience. Great activities
What a fab and interesting day out. The children look like they’re having a lot of fun.
What a fun sounding party! Looks like so many activities were available to take part in.
Looks like you had lots of fun – so many great activities for the kids!
What a fantastic day out for the kids! xx
wow what a lot of fun you have had!
What a fun trip out and I absolutely love all of the top photos, brilliant!
Sounds like you had a great time
We’ve always enjoyed the HP events
What a great fun kiddy activity and a great way to learn about how printers work at the same time too! x
Sounds amazing – H would love that. He’d like combining science with art.
How interesting, already use HP ink and have a printer so don’t need to be converted but looks as though you had a fun time. 🙂
ah what a fun event! they look like they are having a blast! x
What a great time you had! My brother would love to play a bit there 🙂
Looks like loads of fun! My 11 year old loves those optical illusion type things!