Carbon Paper

[6Foot2]

A member of staff here has just sent an E-Mail to all staff saying does anyone still use carbon paper after finding a pack in a desk drawer at home.

 

I can't remember the last time I thought about carbon paper, let alone the last time I might have used any.

[unixman_again]

Surprisingly, you can still buy carbon paper in Staples, so some people must use it. Perhaps it's what tattooists use when they stencil on the design before starting the painful bit?

 

When we had proper computers, with spinning mag tapes and line printers which took 15x11 continuous stationary, we would print on multi-part stationary with carbon between the paper sheets. You would then remove this with a decollator. We thought all our Christmas's had come at once when NCR (no carbon required) paper was introduced.

 

you try and tell the young people today that... and they won't believe ya'.

[Garacesh]

Surprisingly, you can still buy carbon paper in Staples, so some people must use it. Perhaps it's what tattooists use when they stencil on the design before starting the painful bit?

More-or-less, yes, that's how it's done

 

Also getting a tattoo isn't painful, just.. Tingly. Now, getting a tattoo removed..? Now that's painful.