[MR] RE: heraldry

[sirknight at mindspring.com]

>From: sirknight at mindspring.com
>When your printer carts run dry, reload them with water soluble
>acrylics, metallic inks, or your choice of permanent, non-fading,
>inks.

WEll, there are a few problems with doing that.

1.  It generally violates the warranty on the printer if you use a
cartridge
with a non-approved ink.  This may not be an issue for everyone, but
it
would be for some.  Plus, would you want to fill up a $30 cartridge
for the
three sheets of paper you're submitting?

I routinely run acrylics in a couple of different HPs with no ill
effect. I've got another set of carts with metallics. The actual print
head is in the cart, not the printer. As long as you clean them when
not in use and store them correctly, they won't clog. Got in the habit
of refilling cartridges because of that $30 cost - at 4 carts per
printer - when you can refill them for a couple of cents worth of
fluid.

2.  How is the Golden Dolphin Herald supposed to be able to identify
what's
been done with your method and what's been done with a cheapie
cartridge
from the mart in Wal?

See my comment re: wet test of print.

>FWIW: Why are we saving hard copy long enough for the ink to fade?
>Wouldn't a scanned data base of images and data using a common
>program, like Access, be more convenient? Make it doable to use a
>keyword search on charge and/or fields. Burn an annual CD for sale to
>the masses for $10 or so for a fund raiser.

That would be a wonderful idea, however when the Powers That Be asked
a
lawyer about it a few years ago, the SCA Inc. was advised that it
would be
opening a significant exposure to Copyright Infringement lawsuits, so
the
BoD nixed the project.

Humph.... lawyers again. 8-p


There is also the non-trivial task of scanning the multiple thousands
of
pieces of paper currently in Laurel files (I've heard rumor of 20+
filing
cabinets, I do not know if it's true or not).

You shovel papers into a scanner with a document feeder and shovel
them back into the files on the other side. Boring, but not difficult.


			Taras