[CentOS] Waterproof printer paper

Wed Sep 10 16:12:37 UTC 2014
Valeri Galtsev <galtsev at kicp.uchicago.edu>

On Wed, September 10, 2014 10:51 am, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> 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.

Me too. Thanks a lot Bill!

Valeri

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Valeri Galtsev
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