Digital BW, The Print

Phil Rose wrote:

>
>Anyway, here's another question: Are the terms "microporous" and
>"nanoporous"  
>used interchangably by the inkjet industry, and if so, why? 
>Certainly there is a 
>difference between  the meanings of these suffixes, "micro" and
>"nano"--a big 
>difference. Is it merely a matter of meaningless marketing jargon? 
>
The pores vary in maximum size, yes.  Whether marketers use the terms 
properly, only the actual vendor or paper manufacturer would know..

An important sub-group IS micro-ceramic papers (like Pictorico's)

Since the early 1990s, AFAIK, only HP used predominantly swellable 
polymer (instead of microporous papers) as the default media of choice.

 
Keith Krebs

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