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From: tubbsk@prism.cs.orst.edu (Ken Tubbs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: DeskWriter, anyone got one?
Message-ID: <13674@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU>
Date: 9 Nov 89 21:57:17 GMT
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In article <465@amanue.UUCP> jr@amanue.UUCP (Jim Rosenberg) writes:
>In article <101080011@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com> will@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com (David A. Williams) writes:
>>(It will be nice when HP gets the ink formula to be
>>water proof, though.)
>
>I wouldn't call it nice.  I'd call it ***CRUCIAL***.  The water soluble ink,
>all by itself, causes me to just flat out rule out buying a DeskWriter
>completely, period, no questions asked, regardless of the price.
>
>Has HP or /dev/rumor said anything to the effect that HP will really do this?
>I wonder if there's something in the ink deposit technology that means we
>shouldn't hold our breath for water-fast ink.  Anybody really *know* anything
>here?
>-- 
A couple of my friends are ink chemists who have worked on the development
of the ink used in HP's inkjet printheads.  Although they would not come
right out and say that a waterproof ink is forthcoming they hinted that
a solution is technically feasible and just might appear soon.


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Ken Tubbs, Gradual Student                     	Oregon State University 
Internet: tubbsk@prism.cs.orst.edu		Computer Science Dept.
UUCP: {tektronix,hp-pcd}!orstcs!tubbsk		Corvallis, Oregon
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Ken Tubbs, Gradual Student                     	Oregon State University 
Internet: tubbsk@prism.cs.orst.edu		Computer Science Dept.
UUCP: {tektronix,hp-pcd}!orstcs!tubbsk		Corvallis, Oregon
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