[GreenKeys] Funny paper

[Sheldon Daitch]

Jim,

I can't swear that the rolled paper was made or developed by
3M.  Actually, I thought it was a National Cash Register product,
called NCR, no carbon required paper

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbonless_copy_paper

IIRC, the Extels did not have a true type pallet, as the
M-15/20/28 series had, but it was a dot matrix printer,
with 7 to 9 pins in the print head. 

Don't know who might supply the paper.

Sheldon

Jim Haynes wrote:
> A while back Jack gave me a terminal which includes an Extel
> printer mechanism.  Some of the Extel printers used ink ribbons,
> but some including this one did not.  Instead they used a special
> paper developed by 3M which has ink encapsulated in the paper
> so that striking it with a tape pallet releases the ink.
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> Does anybody know if this stuff is still being made and where
> it might be obtained?  It might be used in narrow rolls in some
> of the point-of-sale printers, althought I think most of those
> use thermal paper.
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