Bill Gee wrote: > On Wednesday, September 10, 2014 10:10:19 m.roth at 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. >> <snip> >> > 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. > > http://www.riteintherain.com/ <snip> Thank you, very much. I know a number of folks (including maybe my wife and stepson, the Boy Sprout) who might be very interested in that. mark