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From: andrea@hp-sdd.hp.com (Andrea K. Frankel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.periphs
Subject: Re: Canon BJ-130 experience ?
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Date: 20 Jan 89 19:19:21 GMT
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In article <212@wa3wbu.UUCP> john@wa3wbu.UUCP (John Gayman) writes:
>
>    Does anyone have any experience with the Canon BJ-130 Bubble-Jet
>printer ?  It's advertised as being a DeskJet look-a-like/work-a-
>like, is this so ?  I've heard it has problems with smearing. Does
>it in fact have this problem and is it shared with the DeskJet ?  I
>have a blind friend considering purchasing either a DeskJet or a 
>Canon BJ-130 and she was looking for recommendations or advice. Thanks.

And what is your blind friend going to do with a printer?  I could
imagine that maybe, just maybe, an impact printer could be useful to her
if her fingertips were sensitive enough, but any "jet" printer's output
will lie flat on the media.

DeskJet output will smear if you touch it with sweaty hands; the ink is
a compromise in order to work on plain paper.  (For comparison, the
PaintJet ink doesn't smear, but you really need to use the special HP
PaintJet paper for best output quality.)  My personal solution for
DeskJet is to keep a can of Blair Spray-Fix around (any art supply store
carries it, as well as our local Osco Pharmacy), and lightly mist any
pages that I think will be handled alot.  Or, just learn to handle the
paper by the edges and margins, like picking up a [vinyl] lp.


Andrea Frankel, Hewlett-Packard (San Diego Division) (619) 592-4664
	"wake now!  Discover that you are the song that the morning brings..."
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