Preservation of correspondence

In article <45C75F6D.2080605 at atarimuseum.com>, "Curt @ Atari Museum" <curt at atarimuseum.com> writes: I find that laser printer output tends to stick together after only a few years. Maybe dot matrix would be better? Then there's the issue of density -- most text documents use lots of paper compared to the amount of information on the page. I have been considering the idea of using the page as a large bitmap and simply printing the data onto the bitmap along with checksum/parity information for each row and so-on. This would reduce the bulk but keep the desirable aspects of paper output as an archival medium... Yet it seems like we have this discussion every few months or so and most of us pick the backup medium that suits our tastes even if other people are swearing up and down that it will never be reliable. -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 draft available for download <http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/download/index.html> Legalize Adulthood! <http://blogs.xmission.com/legalize/>