Abstract: An Internet business directory for a geographical place (such as a country, city, town or county), wherein the Internet address for the business directory includes the name of the geographical place, and wherein at least one drop-down menu is used, is easy to use and benefits consumers and advertisers alike. Further advantages may be realized by also using a vehicle with an at least one exterior marking stating the. Internet address which corresponds to the Internet business directory, with a facility inside the vehicle for signing-up advertisers to advertise on the Internet business directory.

Abstract: A row-interleaved printing method for use in phase change ink jet printers which minimizes appearance abnormalities when printing solid geometric shapes; minimizes the horizontal "banding-effect" caused by cross-talk between ink jets when all jets are activated; and minimize the "seaming effect" caused by paper step mechanisms when different velocity profiles are used during printing.

Abstract: In an ink jet printer having a plurality of ink jet channels which are individually controllable to produce ink dots on a printing medium, crosstalk is reduced by activating each odd numbered channel in alternation with each even numbered channel, while offsetting the orifices of one group of channels from the other to compensate for the time difference between activations, and the voltage supplied to excite the channel transducers is varied as a function of the number of channels simultaneously exited to maintain a fixed excitation voltage across each transducer.