CARBONPAPER

Carbon paper

Carbon paper was originally paper coated on one side with a layer of a loosely bound dry ink or pigmented coating, bound with wax, used for making one or more copies simultaneous with the creation of an original document when using a typewriter or a ballpoint pen. Manufacturing of carbon paper was formerly the largest consumer of montan wax. In 1954 the Columbia Ribbon & Carbon Manufacturing Company filed a patent for what became known in the trade as solvent carbon paper: the coating was changed from wax-based to polymer-based. The manufacturing process changed from a hot-melt method to a solvent-applied coating or set of coatings. It was then possible to use ...

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carbon paper

Noun

  1. A sheet of paper with one of the faces impregnated with carbon, used to make carbon copies.


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