On Wednesday, September 10, 2014 10:10:19 m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
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
One of my recreational activities is caving. When surveying a cave we always use Rite-In-The-Rain paper. It is almost completely waterproof. I have managed to dunk my survey book in a stream for minutes at a time. The paper and the pencil sketching survived. It also survives getting muddy.
They offer products that will go through a laser or ink-jet printer.
For long-term storage (decades or more) the jury is out. I have survey notes from 15 years ago that are still usable. They are stored in an ordinary filing cabinet in my house - No special environmental efforts are taken. It seems reasonable that Rite-In-The-Rain paper will store at least as well as regular paper.
It is pricey, but if you really need waterproof then this is good stuff.
Bill Gee