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From: jack@Taffy.rice.edu (Jack W. Howarth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Deskwriter ink (was: LaserPrinters)
Message-ID: <1990Dec5.020508.20462@rice.edu>
Date: 5 Dec 90 02:05:08 GMT
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In article <1990Dec4.213156.16935@cs.ucla.edu> flowers@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (Margot Flowers) writes:
>>There is absolutely no truth to this.  This ink is still and will continue
>>to be on the market.  The old ink (the stuff that did smear when wet) is
>>being taken off (when its gone, its gone), but the new ink is here to stay.
>
>Does anyone know for sure how "smudge-resistant" the new ink is?
>Specifically, I'm wondering about the security of using it for
>printing checks.  Is the printing now more securely fixed on the page
>with the new ink?
>
>The reason I'm asking is that someone I know had an HP salesman show
>him that the old ink can be erased off of checks.  The salesman told
>him that one should use Krylon (spray fixative) to make the old ink
>secure for use on checks.
>
>Margot Flowers 
>Flowers@CS.UCLA.EDU 
>...!(uunet,rutgers,ucbvax,randvax)!cs.ucla.edu!flowers


Margot,
  I believe the new ink will smudge ever so slightly when really wet, but
isn't going to be eraseable like the old stuff was.
                      Jack Howarth