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From: geof@aurora.com (Geoffrey H. Cooper)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Re: Canon BJ10e - an owner's comments
Message-ID: <1991Mar1.211301.24121@aurora.com>
Date: 1 Mar 91 21:13:01 GMT
References: <5261@male.EBay.Sun.COM> <1991Feb28.174222.25748@uvm.edu>
Reply-To: geof@aurora.UUCP (Geoffrey H. Cooper)
Organization: The Aurora Group, Palo Alto, CA
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In article <1991Feb28.174222.25748@uvm.edu> pegram@kira.UUCP (Robert B. Pegram) writes:
>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.

The ink is not as durable as ball-point pen ink or laser-printer output.
However, it is not nearly as water soluble as HP's DeskJet ink.

I just tried the "puddle test", of dropping a piece of BJ10e printed
paper in a puddle (we're revelling in rain here in drought-striken CA).
The ink runs readily and in quantity, but not ALL the ink runs.  The
paper was clearly smudged and ugly, but still readable.

For veterans of the fountain pen, it looks to me a lot like what used
to happen to homework written in "washable blue" that had similar
treatment.

What is next is to convolve the puddle test with the US-mail envelope
printing test.  I'll leave that to someone else.

BTW, if you're worried, just get a piece of clear tape (clear binding
tape is suitable) and paste a square of it over the address on the
envelope.  This is still easier than writing it out by hand.

- Geof
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