I see a problem here...
I only print things out when I need to keep on them or work with them. That tends to mean I WRITE on the paper, CUT it for smaller handouts or PIN it to a wall.
Sames goes for Toshiba and their Plastic Paper (its a bargain at $10 a sheet!)
The self-recycling paper is still useful. Consider for example, in school we get tons of handouts for an assignment or a test that we only use for that one day and then they are garbage afterwards. This could simply help on the amount of paper that would have to be used.
I do not think that this is even targeted towards consumers, who's paper usage is not large enough to consider something to this school. It is more geared towards institutions and facilities that use a lot of paper very often, like a school for example.
The only application I can see it having is for confidential information - where you only need the print out for a short period of time- like in a bank for example.
Says in the slashdot article that it's only re-usable up to 10 times. If there's no indicator as to how many times a sheet's been used then it'll be hard to keep track of and also if the properties of the paper changes upon contact with things like water or something
Seems to me like they still need to work on it. I'd like paper that will display the information indefinitely and have it fade when I return it to the tray. Unless it becomes easier to use, it'll just be confusing for consumers
When I heard this story on BOL tonight the first thing I thought of was how long till someone tries to pull a my dog ate my paper, only in this case it will be I printed on xerox self-recycling paper by mistake.
...my paper self-recycled!
hmmm..yeah, great innovation but needs to be carefully marketed...
For some reason when I heard about this story, it made me think of those spytech toys that had the invisible ink. How secure really is this self-recycling? What if all you need to do is just put the paper against a lightbulb and all the printed texts come out?
This could be good think of all of the recites that you get and then they can go away after you have entered them into you check book or on your computer. I also like it my home work the paper recycled it's self that would be a different excuse. INSTRESTING
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