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From: ssd@sugar.hackercorp.com (Scott Denham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: HP DeskJet new INK
Keywords: ink,dj,deskjet,hp,printer
Message-ID: <6530@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Date: 6 Sep 90 22:50:45 GMT
References: <6525@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston
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In article <6525@sugar.hackercorp.com>, davidm@sugar.hackercorp.com (David Martin) writes:
  
>   I was told by an HP dealer that HP will announce a new
> ink that will tolerate water better this fall. Sometime
> between now and Dec.
> David


This was confirmed in this week's issue of PC Week, along with a review of
the new Deskjet 500 printer that goes with it. (The new ink does work in
the old printers, though!)  The "first look" review said that besides
having none of the smearing problems of the old ink, the new ink allows 
one to use any good grade of bond paper in the DeskJet instead of being
limited to special treated papers....  Good news indeed, but then again
as lasers rapidly erode the $1000 price barrier, HP needed to do something
to keep the DeskJet a viable product.