On Nov 9, 11:36, Grant Mitchell wrote:
> Subject: Re: Sun mouse pad Re: need some parts
>
> A friend at a placed I used to work showed me a postscript file
> he had downloaded from somewhere for printing your own
> optical mouse mats for a Sun (his had a bad scratch accross
> it). As a temporary stopgap it _might_ work (need a colour printer
> though!).
No you don't -- just a print that is red/IR-absorbent (the two LEDs in
optical mice are IR and red). We've used laser-printed sheets as an
expediency measure a few times. There's no fancy pattern, either, it's
just horizontal and vertical lines in a regular grid.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York
Received on Mon Nov 09 1998 - 18:30:33 GMT