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Bold textArticle 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)
According to some of the DEA reports I've been reading, Carbon Paper seems to be a common wrapper for cocaine and heroin. Does anyone have any idea why this is? Might be interesting to add to the article if we can find a good source explaining it. ---J.S (T/C/WRE) 03:47, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
There are several TV documentaries, with names like Border Patrol and Nothing to Declare, showing the work of customs officers. And it’s true, drug smugglers do often wrap drugs in carbon paper – but to fool the sniffer dogs, not the x-rays. The reason is carbon absorbs smells and gasses (hence its use in gas masks). Having said that, it can’t be absolutely effective because these packages are intercepted, and shown on TV. Guess I should note the citation next time I see it on TV 10:11, 10 December 2020 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by MarcuH (talk • contribs)
Who invented it? Where did it first appear? When did it first appear, when did it get first acceptance in the market place? When did it become a commercial success? Who got rich from the intention? Did the inventor miss out on a share of the fortune it must have made in it's time? Who were the major manufacturers? What is the pigment actually made of? How is it made anyway? Surely somebody must still know all this stuff. It needs to be recorded for posterity before, like the product itself, it disappears.
58.145.148.3 (talk) 17:14, 9 November 2008 (UTC)
A girl in a few of my classes is deaf and she asks me to take notes on the carbon paper for her since its hard for her to keep up with the teacher and the interpreter.
Carbon paper is also used to transfer tattoo design from paper to skin. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.236.14.198 (talk) 21:06, 6 March 2013 (UTC)
The section on fuel cells does not seem to belong. Please consider moving this bit of trivia to a more appropriate article, perhaps carbon fiber. Another alternative would be a disambiguation page for carbon paper, but the blurb on carbon paper in fuel cells does not seem big enough to warrant its own page.50.127.148.173 (talk) 21:17, 7 February 2015 (UTC)ysc
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Isn't carbon paper used by dentists to find high spots on artificial crowns so that they can be ground to improve the bite? Tfdavisatsnetnet (talk) 02:12, 7 July 2023 (UTC)
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