Archival storage

[James Fogg]

> Back when small printers were hard to come by, there was at 
> least one technology that used a "paper' made of a black 
> layer on a paper substrate covered by a very thin layer of 
> aluminum.  The printer burned through the aluminum, leaving 
> the black spots exposed.  Oddly enough, this sounds like a 
> fiarly permanent process.  Was the stuff called 
> "electrographic" paper?

This might be Readex Microprint technology. I've never seen an example
of Readex output, although the company is a few miles from me and used
to be a microfiche customer. I do know they got significant storage
reduction compared to paper.