11 Oct
2005
11 Oct
'05
3:03 p.m.
On 10/11/2005 at 4:43 PM John Foust wrote:
As we've flogged many times before, "Which
printing technology"?
Laser printer toner has characteristics that make it unsuitable
(such as the way it'll transfer from page to page when pressed
tightly). Ink jets are soluble. Dye sub? Wax transfer?
Back when small printers were hard to come by, there was at least one technology that used
a "paper' made of a black layer on a paper substrate covered by a very thin layer
of aluminum. The printer burned through the aluminum, leaving the black spots exposed.
Oddly enough, this sounds like a fiarly permanent process. Was the stuff called
"electrographic" paper?
Before CD's, weren't there some experimental recording methods using phase-change
glass? Was it the Ovionics people that pioneered this?
Photographic images have a very long life, assuming careful storage. Tintypes maybe?
Cheers,
Chuck