the use of a surfactant can facilitate processing and subsequent constitution of the dry coating system with the solvent under these circumstances from 0 2 to 2 of a non toxic fda approved surfactant was found to be advantageous as to particle size the pigment particle size range may be between about 0 1 to 40 microns the optimum mean particle size range for iron oxides is about 0 5 to 1 micron for lakes and insoluble dyes is from about 1 to 5 microns for titanium dioxide is about 0 5 to 2 microns and for channel black is about 0 2 to 1 micron the methyl cellulose of example 9 is methocel a15 by dow chemical co methocel e15 or e5 also by dow may be used in place of methocel a15 the liquid plasticizers when used in making up the inventive dry coating mixture seem to have surfactant properties the liquid plasticizers seem to act as a solvent for the surfactants when used and seem to disperse the surfactants throughout the system it is to be noted that the polymer to pigment ratio is a fixed ratio on a volume basis not on a weight basis the ratio of polymer to pigment on a volume basis is from about 4 to 1 to 10 to 1 with the preferred ratio being about 6 5 to 1 the volume ratio is used because of the different.