James B. Byrne wrote:
On Tue, September 9, 2014 13:03, Valeri Galtsev wrote:
On Tue, September 9, 2014 11:56 am, John R Pierce wrote:
On 9/9/2014 9:42 AM, a. wrote:
its imho cheaper than the huge investment costs of laser printers.
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Water immersion survivability is dependent on the quality of the paper as well as the type of print medium. I do not know if others have
experienced
this but the quality of copier/printer paper now available to us exhibits noticeably inferior stability when wetted from paper of the same weight from the same brand-name supplier obtained as recently as four years
ago. I
can attest to that because I have compared the two. Increasing the paper weight improves wetted stability only marginally and certainly not the
the level
exhibited in the older paper stock. And this is so-called 'premium' stuff I am writing about.
I suspect the increasing use of recycled, and therefore shortened fibre, in> production of modern papers has something to do with this.
Oother possibilities are clay content, or acid content of the paper.
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