Talk:Carbon paper

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Bold textArticle describes the sort of carbon paper that is (was) inserted between two sheets of paper. This sort of carbon paper can (or was) reusable. One would have a sheet of it sitting ready in a memo pad (the memo pad had alternate master and copy sheets). This sort of carbon apper is little used today (at least in the west, can't comment on elsewhere.

What about the sort of paper that you can actually write (or print) directly on which acts as its own carbon paper and will produce a copy underneath...this is still used (eg for doing multiple copies when a credit card is swiped on a old style card impresion device). Is this stuff still called carbon paper: or does it have another name? Should we distinguish between the two types of carbon paper?

--GPoss 12:23, Jul 27, 2004 (UTC)

See carbonless copy paper. (User:Alan Liefting modified the carbon paper article to link to the carbonless copy paper article in December 2004.)

[edit] Carbon paper and drugs

According to some of the DEA reports I've been reading, Carbon Paper seems to be a common wrapper for cocaine and heroin.[1][2][3] Does anyone have any idea why this is? Might be interesting to add to the article if we can find a good source explaining it. ---J.S (T/C/WRE) 03:47, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

"then wrap it up with carbon paper to avoid X-Ray scanning machines at airports" [4] - WTF? That makes no sense. ---J.S (T/C/WRE) 03:52, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Who invented it? Where did it first appear? When did it first appear, when did it get first acceptance in the market place? When did ht become a commercial success? Who got rich from the intention? Did the inventor miss out on a share of the fortune it must have made in it's time? Who were the major manufacturers? What is the pigment actually made of? How is it made anyway? Surely somebody must still know all this stuff. It needs to be recorded for posterity before, like the product itself, it disappears.

58.145.148.3 (talk) 17:14, 9 November 2008 (UTC)