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Lyrics
By Bill Jelen

On August 18th, Michael L. Walter wrote,
> But isn't there another less cumbersome method that could
> perforate paper, chain bridge and print words all at the same time?

Richard Tonnesen's perforator does an excellent job on the perforating and chain bridging.

Lyrics do seem to be a problem. Has anyone ever tried to tackle the problem of adding lyrics to the roll? At Bam-Bam, I've written a program that allows my dot-matrix printer to print lyrics on the roll. Since the printer is trying to friction feed the dry wax paper, I get some slippage and keeping the lyrics aligned with the music is a problem. Plus, it generally takes too long (10 minutes per roll) to make it economical.

The high speed stencil machine at QRS is cool, but I've never seen one anywhere else. (although I assume PlayRite has something similar). Also, with QRS's machine, you have to cut the initial stencils into the cloth ribbon using a manual stencilling machine. From what I understand, this is very time consuming.

Is there any way to replace the QRS cloth stencil with a fast inkjet print head so that the lyrics could be entered and processed by computer?

If not, is there any way to interface a computer to the stencil machine so that the process of cutting the stencils in the cloth could be automated?

--Bill Jelen


(Message sent Mon 21 Aug 1995, 16:41:00 GMT, from time zone GMT-0500.)

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