[CentOS] Canon PIXMA mg5420 or HP Photo Smart 7520

[m.roth at 5-cent.us]

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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