[CentOS] Waterproof printer paper

Wed Sep 10 15:51:12 UTC 2014
m.roth at 5-cent.us <m.roth at 5-cent.us>

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/
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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