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From: tony@hp-sdd.hp.com (Tony Parkhurst_TEMP)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Paint Jet Printers
Message-ID: <1798@hp-sdd.HP.COM>
Date: 28 Dec 88 23:08:54 GMT
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(Time to water down the flames a bit ...)

In article <158@pande.UUCP> richard@gryphon.COM (!Matt Crawford) writes:

>To all you alt.flame readers: Fuck off (tm))

How quaint.

>In article <1787@hp-sdd.HP.COM> tony@hp-sdd.HP.COM (Tony Parkhurst) writes:
>>In article <9958@gryphon.COM> richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton) writes:
>>>In article <5660024@hpcvca.HP.COM> another paranoid HP pinhead wrote:
>>                                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>                                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>Got it now ?

From your expertise Richard, does it take one to know one?!?

>d) I lake to flame pinheads that I feel deserve it.

I think you just lake to flame :-|

>Well, you see Tony, I though it might make sense to ask one of 
>you HP'ers first, and if that failed, find out for myself.

It seems that you still haven't bothered to do that, so, being that I
am a NICE "pinhead", I going to help you out some more:

From the August, 1988 issue of the "Hewlett-Packard Journal"
(available at any descent technical library...):

"[the solvent carrier] is a combination of water and hydroxylated
alkyl ethers and the dyes are organic compounds that have been solubilized in
the [solvent] using sulfonates and monovalent species ..., or cationic
organic amines."

This issue of the HP Journal has lots and lots of info about the PaintJet
from hardware, to pen heads to firmware to inks to papers etc.

>>Richard, you are very opinionated (as I), and I have agreed with many of
>>your postings, but I just don't see eye-to-eye with your hostility and
>>name calling.

>Yeah, well, wadda ya gonna do about it, fuckhead ?

Nothing.

>Sorry, couldnt resist. Recreational flaming, and all that.

Take this as you will, but here I put you in the same class as Nick Flor.

>No, Tony it doesnt. My REAL questions were 1) are the colours better that
>the Canon inks? 2) Are they as good as the Tektronix inks? 3) Are the
>HP inks water or alcohol based? If they are alcohol based 4) can
>I use them in a Canon printer?

1) subjective.
2)   ""
3) water
4) quite unlikely.  
   a) The inks are only available in the expensive print cartrige packaging.
   b) The Canon printer is a different animal.

>Oh, this is good. Become an HP employee and discover their comsumer
>products a very very bad for you. Cool.

This is a little unrealistic since the packaging was never intended for
any other use than packing the pen.  Who would think before product
shipping that someone might use the foil packaging for microwaving food?

>>>   the inks - LD50, radiation harardm flammability, and, what the
>>               ^^^^
>>Geesh, I wonder just how many animals died to determine this info.

>Who cares. They're just animals. Were talking important human
>endevours here, like COLOUR PRINTERS!

I only mention this because the current storyline in Bloom County has
to do with animal testing.

>> [questioning Richards ethics...]
>Yes. Anything in particular you want to know ?  If you HP people had the

Nope, if I ever get a phone call from an alledged doctor wanting company
secrets... "Is that you Richard?!?"

>``Hi HP. I have one of your competitors colour printers. I have no
>intention to buy another colour printer, yours or anyone elses, but
>I might be interested in throwing some money at you to buy your inks
>if they will work in my printer.''

Get real.

>It's too bad I had to call you guys pinheads to get you to respond.
>But thanks anyway.

Next time I will send a letter bomb via e-mail.

-- Tony
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Tony Parkhurst	( tony@hp-sdd.HP.COM )