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