11 Oct
2005
11 Oct
'05
7:39 p.m.
Some where around the cave I have a timex/sincair printer
my dad brought back from england that used the aluminized paper.
It never got FCC approval because as the aluminized paper came out
as it printed it became a very slow sweep wide band spark gap
transmitter that blew any chance of getting type acceptance here in the
states. It connected to the back of a timex 1000.
I have a second example in a rusrack chart recorder where a sharp
point scratched or more like pecked the surface away without using
a spark. It did meet the type acceptance :)
Bob Bradlee
On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 22:01:16 -0400, James Fogg wrote:
> 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?
This might be Readex Microprint technology. I've
never seen an example
of Readex output, although the company is a few miles from me and used
to be a microfiche customer. I do know they got significant storage
reduction compared to paper.