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From: BRAUN@FRECP12.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Re: Canon BJ10e - an owner's comments
Message-ID: <91060.143926BRAUN@FRECP12.BITNET>
Date: 1 Mar 91 18:39:26 GMT
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Bob Pegram (pegram@griffin.uvm.edu) wrote :
>But you didn't answer the one burning question, or is the answer well known?

>Is the ink water soluble or not??  Not being able to address envelopes
>and such, is the reason I stayed away from DeskJets until the 500.
>
>Anybody know the answer?  Thanks,

i have just made a test for you: i took an sheet of paper i printed with
my bj10 one or 2 days ago, and throw *a lot of* water on it. It appears
to be half soluble : some of the ink went away with the water
and made the sheet look ugly, but it was still completely READABLE
(with courier font, it may be less readable with more "complicated"
fonts..). Post offices usualy don't throw your letters in a pool. :)

by the way, **according to the manual** (i haven' test any envelopes)
only "commercial number 10" envelopes should be used (4.1*9.5 inches)
and none of the following :
 *  envelopes with windows, holes, perforations, cutouts, double flaps
 *  " with special coated paper or deep embossed paper
 *  " using peel-off sealing strips
 *  " in wich letters have been enclosed

hope it helps

  Regards
               Daniel Braun
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