White toner for printing on black paper was my idea. I was at Catie Simonton's copy shop in the late 1980, think, or early 1990s. There was no internet to speak of. Copy shops were very busy in those days. Remeber what it smelled like in copy shops, with the ozone and the hot paper? I was making three-color Mendocino Movies posters by running the blue-toner layer, changing the toner to a red cartridge and running the stack of paper back through for the red layer (this was all on Astrobright fluorescent yellow, so terrific eye-searing contrast). Sheldon was helping me, pulling out toner, grumbling about, shoving in toner, and he was already cranky about other things, but something occurred to me, and I said it out loud: "I have a million-dollar idea: white toner." Sheldon said, "What?!" I said, "White toner, for printing on black paper." Sheldon said, "That is the stupidest thing I ever heard." Way to crush a man's dreams, man.
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White toner for printing on black paper was my idea. I was at Catie Simonton's copy shop in the late 1980, think, or early 1990s. There was no internet to speak of. Copy shops were very busy in those days. Remeber what it smelled like in copy shops, with the ozone and the hot paper? I was making three-color Mendocino Movies posters by running the blue-toner layer, changing the toner to a red cartridge and running the stack of paper back through for the red layer (this was all on Astrobright fluorescent yellow, so terrific eye-searing contrast). Sheldon was helping me, pulling out toner, grumbling about, shoving in toner, and he was already cranky about other things, but something occurred to me, and I said it out loud: "I have a million-dollar idea: white toner." Sheldon said, "What?!" I said, "White toner, for printing on black paper." Sheldon said, "That is the stupidest thing I ever heard." Way to crush a man's dreams, man.
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