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From: Karthik Sheka <>
Subject: Re: What type of paper to use to print out Family Tree on?
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 05:48:35 -0800


Chris wrote:

> wrote:
>
> >... I want to print out our Family Tree for my family....
> >I have a Canon BJC210 color printer....
> >Does it make any difference as to type of paper I use?
>
> Yes, both in terms of whether it's inkjet paper, and if it's
> archival-quality (or at least acid free).
>
> >Is one paper better than any others?
>
> Not necessarily, but you can be reasonably comfortable with Hammermill
> paper. My understanding is that all of their paper is acid free.
> Just make sure you get paper designed for an inkjet printer, so it's
> optimized for that particular type of ink.

As a side note, a while back I was doing a lot of printing on my laser
printer and bought a ream of legal size (8.5 x 14) paper instead of the
normal 8.5 x 11. I felt stupid going back to the store, so I just left it
on the shelf. Then, when I started printing out descendant trees, I
realized that using legal size paper in landscape mode gave more
information per page. The great thing is that just about all printers can
print on legal size paper (as opposed to the fanfold paper, which only
prints in dot matrix and a few specially made inkjet printers).

Karthik P. Sheka

http://www.bigfoot.com/~K.P.Shek

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