Carbon Paper ?

[mstone]

I wonder what's different with that "solvent" paper. I don't see it available anywhere. There used to be some made by Nu-Kote, but they went bankrupt a couple years ago.

 

I think the solvent paper is more permanent than the non-solvent (which is erasable). Definitely a dying art (the burroughs paper above has got to be almost 30 years old). I'd actually wonder how well vintage carbon paper works, since some of the components are volatile.

[Turlough]

Yikes, I have graphite paper here... used for transferring a drawing pattern on to wood for carving. Instead of the blue carbon, it uses a basically pencil graphite. http://www.LeeValley.com

 

Comes in handy to say the least.

As a former illustrator we sometimes made our own carbon or technically graphic transfer paper. It was used to transfer sketchs to illustration boards which were to be painted.

That transfer paper was made by rubbing a graphic stick all over tracing tissue. This was smoothed with cotton balls and bestine or rubber cement thinner. The transfered sketch or drawing appeared similiar to a pencil drawing and then was painted.

[WendyNC]

Does anyone remember if CCs were generally signed separately, just like the original, if it was a letter - or left blank, which is what I think I remember.

 

CCs also had a lost sense of 'originality', paradoxically. They were part of the original writing process, contrasting to the photocopy (and of course computer-made letter) of which there could be thousands of copies.

 

 

It depended on what it was. Letters usually went without markings in the signature line, although it was often customary to put a check mark next to the name of the recipient of a particular copy.

 

Other documents were different. We used to "conform the signatures" on wills, contracts and such. A "conformed copy" was one of those carbons on which the signature lines were completed by someone else who put /s/ before the signature.

[Safari_Camo]

Still available in my country , some small stores uses them for receipts hand written (usually blue carbon paper)

 

Pelikan still sells those papers, very flamable indeed.

 

Carbon Paper by Pelikan

[BelArgent]

Gosh. Is this showing my age (Youngish as it may be) that I still remember carbon-paper?

 

Maybe not in a writing sense, but still.

 

My grandmother, a professional tailor for 40 years, used to have stacks of carbon-paper in her bedroom. She would pin the cloth to the carbon-paper with pins. Flip it over and then with this special corrugated wheel she would trace out the outline or cut of the cloth. The wheel would press into the carbon-paper and leave a faint outline on the cloth which she could then cut along with her scissors.

 

I haven't seen carbon-paper like that in YEARS. Not since my gran moved to a retirement home, and that was nearly 10 years ago.

 

Sewing tracing paper, which is what you are describing your grandmother using, is still readily available and still in use amongst those of us who know how to sew. I suppose you could call it carbon paper, although it is only used on cloth, comes in lots of colors (which office carbon paper didn't) and is re-usable and much larger in size and heavier in weight than office carbon paper was, which was flimsy stuff.

[Shangas]

Hi Belargent, sorry for the misnomer. I refused to call it 'tracing paper' because it didnt' seem to be thin enough for that. I remember the paper my grandmother had was red in colour.

[ballboy]

I remember carbon paper! ... Reagan wasn't that long ago yet technologically it seems a century ago. "Yes children, when I was your age the phone was attached to the kitchen wall and everyone in the house had to share it." I'm too young to belong in a museum

Ah, sweet times

[matt385]

We had to use the carbon paper from the fed ex shipping log last Sunday in an emergency. We ran out of the proper 3 part form invoice books. Most of the customers got a kick of going old school. :roflmho:

[BelArgent]

Hi Belargent, sorry for the misnomer. I refused to call it 'tracing paper' because it didnt' seem to be thin enough for that. I remember the paper my grandmother had was red in colour.

 

Well, it actually is a sort of carbon paper, although it's much heavier and the coating is sort of waxy, compared to the flimsy office carbon paper. It comes in several colors, white, yellow, red, blue, green. You can re-use a sheet of the stuff for many uses. I don't know why I call it tracing paper, though, probably terminology I picked up as a child when I learned to sew (to cause further confusion, I do use rolled tracing paper in sewing also. I make my patterns out of it).https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif

[SamCapote]

I wonder what's different with that "solvent" paper. I don't see it available anywhere. There used to be some made by Nu-Kote, but they went bankrupt a couple years ago.

 

I think the solvent paper is more permanent than the non-solvent (which is erasable). Definitely a dying art (the burroughs paper above has got to be almost 30 years old). I'd actually wonder how well vintage carbon paper works, since some of the components are volatile.

 

Don't know if you are still following this thread, mstone, but looking at these two products from Pelikan, I think this is likely the difference between the solvent and wax types:

 

http://www.pelikan.com/pulse/Pulsar/en_US.Store.displayStore.36774./copying

 

I don't know if any of those are still available in the USA though.

[Miranda]

Surprised no-one has made a joke about how we can tell what age people here are through carbon-paper dating.

[kirtar]

I think I've got an old lab notebook with carbon paper sitting around somewhere... The notebook's been used of course, but not with the carbon paper (it was more for an informal project)