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Re:Fountain pen inks: the good, the bad, and the ugly (2011) by analognoise on Sunday March 11, 2018 @09:06PM (#16565587)
Impact paper. It's the future.
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Re:Fountain pen inks: the good, the bad, and the ugly (2011) by freosam on Sunday March 11, 2018 @09:19PM (#16565625)
What's that?
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Re:Fountain pen inks: the good, the bad, and the ugly (2011) by rafael859 on Sunday March 11, 2018 @10:25PM (#16565847)
The future.

Seriously though, I can't find any information for that online. The first Google result is Impact Wholesale, which redirects to some very invasive ads. Impact printers on the other hand are printers that mark dots on the paper using a needle, so no ink is applied.

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Re:Fountain pen inks: the good, the bad, and the ugly (2011) by falcolas on Monday March 12, 2018 @12:34PM (#16569295)
So, dot matrix printers?

;)

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Re:Fountain pen inks: the good, the bad, and the ugly (2011) by DanBC on Sunday March 11, 2018 @10:22PM (#16565838)
I thought it was "carbonless copy paper", an old tech to replace carbon paper.

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

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