> On Oct 12, 2015, at 23:42, Ethan Dicks <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 11:32 PM, Nigel Williams > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Has anyone ever seen one? I had an idea it used a silvered-paper and >> burned it off? or am I mis-remembering. > > I used one in the early 1980s but I never had to repair it. It was, > as Tony and others have mentioned, electrolytic, not thermal. I don't > know the details of the process either, but I remember the wet wick > and having to wait for the paper to dry.
I wonder if the wet-paper printer that you remember used a similar process to the one that my folks' liquid toner photocopier did back in the 80s? It used an electrostatic toner adhesion process followed by a fuser. Just like contemporary laser printers and photocopiers, but with the toner particles suspended in a liquid carrier. The volatile carrier smelled awful, and the finished copies had a fingernails-on-chalkboard like gritty feel in the hands. I seem to recall that it needed specially prepared paper. -- Mark J. Blair, NF6X <[email protected]> http://www.nf6x.net/
