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From: drp@dosbears.UUCP (David R. Preston)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Win 3.0 + Winword + Deskjet 500 = ?
Message-ID: <221@dosbears>
Date: 24 Apr 91 23:56:24 GMT
References: <5551@mindlink.bc.ca>
Reply-To: drp%dosbears.uucp@ingres.com (David R. Preston)
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In article <5551@mindlink.bc.ca> Joel_Murray@mindlink.bc.ca (Joel Murray) writes:
>
>A word of caution, though:  make sure that you buy the right kind of paper.
>Photocopier or laser paper with no cotton content will allow the ink to bleed
>into the fibers.  Of course, the result is ugly.  Just make sure that any paper
>you buy contains some amount of cotton.  Usually, the word "bond" in the title
>of the paper package will indicate cotton content.

Actually, high cotton content (25% or more) is the worst you could use.
I haven't tried any paper that claimed to have cotton that gave good
results; what brand are you using and does it say how much cotton?

The absolute best I've seen so far is James River Corp.'s "Pro-Tech"
short-grain laser bond paper (cat.#94162).  I've also gotten good
results (for <$) from Benchmark High-speed Xerographic (99-120).
However, some other non-bond xerographic paper I tried was yucky,
so you just have to experiment.  I don't know how Canadian dollars
convert to real money :-), but the Benchmark was less than US$5.00/ream
and the Pro-Tech was less than $7.


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          David R. Preston      drp%dosbears.uucp@ingres.com
                   The world hadn't ever had so many 
                     moving parts or so few labels.
          D. R. Preston 584 Castro St. #614 SF CA 94114 USA