Scented graphics: exploration in inkjet scented-printing

This paper describes "Scented Graphics," our artistic experiments with a scented-printing technique that utilizes an inkjet printer. By mixing water-soluble aromatic oils with inks, an inkjet printer can be utilized to control scent mixing with high precision at almost no extra cost. Such features are hardly provided by the existing scented-printing services at the same level of flexibility and cost-effectiveness. We mimicked the Swiss graphic design in our experiment as the style to facilitate the preliminary investigation of this technique. As scent mixing is a fundamental technique in olfactory art, our experiments can be beneficial as design exemplars as a preliminary exploration of the technique.