CibbuanoXerox develops disappearing ink!
December 13th 2007 18:37
One of the most egregious crimes of the modern century has to be the sheer amount of waste produced by offices and administration.
Have you been in an office recently? Everything is printed on paper, with multiple copies, in stacks and stacks. I was in a meeting recently, and we got agendas before the meeting, then minutes after the meeting.
Sure, it was well-organized, but it makes me shiver to think that offices everywhere are doing the same thing, all on that good-quality copy paper, which is definitely made from fresh trees, not recycled paper.
The truth is, until recycled paper becomes similar in quality to virgin paper, offices will always prefer the 'good' stuff. Which means the slaughter of trees continue.
Here's a halfway solution that could allow the reuse of good quality paper: Xerox has developed a disappearing ink that dissolves after 16 hours.
It's a useful technology, for sure, but I can already see some drawbacks:
1) Once you've printed on a page, it gets curved, making it harder to use it in a printer again. Older printers will jam when using deformed paper.
2) I'd love to believe that offices would use this, but what would they print? What is of temporary importance? Agendas? Perhaps... but I feel the majority of the office's printing requirements will be permanent.
3) This really requires printers to have two toner packs... is that a drawback?
Have you been in an office recently? Everything is printed on paper, with multiple copies, in stacks and stacks. I was in a meeting recently, and we got agendas before the meeting, then minutes after the meeting.
Sure, it was well-organized, but it makes me shiver to think that offices everywhere are doing the same thing, all on that good-quality copy paper, which is definitely made from fresh trees, not recycled paper.
The truth is, until recycled paper becomes similar in quality to virgin paper, offices will always prefer the 'good' stuff. Which means the slaughter of trees continue.
Here's a halfway solution that could allow the reuse of good quality paper: Xerox has developed a disappearing ink that dissolves after 16 hours.
It's a useful technology, for sure, but I can already see some drawbacks:
1) Once you've printed on a page, it gets curved, making it harder to use it in a printer again. Older printers will jam when using deformed paper.
2) I'd love to believe that offices would use this, but what would they print? What is of temporary importance? Agendas? Perhaps... but I feel the majority of the office's printing requirements will be permanent.
3) This really requires printers to have two toner packs... is that a drawback?
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