Talk:Carbon paper

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Article 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.)