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Xerox develops self-erasing paper
Paper gets wasted a lot in offices everywhere, with people printing out memos that are relevant for about 15 minutes only to have all 50 people who got them toss them in the old circular file right after reading them. While email is a great and easy way to save paper and send your impermanent info around to your coworkers, sometimes you just need to have something printed out.
Xerox is all about saving paper while still using paper, as they sell paper, so they've developed some paper that will erase itself after 24 hours, allowing it to be reused up to 50 times. The sheets are coated with a special chemical that causes the ink to fade when exposed to light, generally 16 to 24 hours after printing, but the erasing process can be sped up by passing the paper through the printer again. It's the perfect technology for memos and love notes that you don't really mean.
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By QuickJman at 12:10 AM ON 12/02/06
cool now i can finly know what it feels ilke to be be an office worker who was cheap and bought his kid box of white craons for crismas every morning wen i go to turn in a report to my boss be cause before you konw my as my roomey (witch is a tree huger)will find ouot about this paper and replce all of the paper in my apartment with it
i need a new dorm :lol:
By QuickJman at 12:16 AM ON 12/02/06
by the way the last time i posted my key bord was broke and it still is lol
any way thats why it is hard to read be cause of the broken copy buton
lol!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!haha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
By christhemad at 3:12 AM ON 12/07/06
humm just wounder how much can be do by this like if one likes to print something more say adult on it the be able to have it fade away be great for guys with girlfriends and wifes lol
By jehill1949 at 7:05 AM ON 12/07/06
Wow!!! You guys need to slow down, get a dictionary, proof read your spell checker or something. Reading these comments is very painful.
By NightshadePA at 7:40 AM ON 12/07/06
Ummm Where does the ink go? Does the paper absorb it?? What if the page is in darkness like in a file?? Does it still disapear?
My favorite question ... do they make it in legal size hehe.
By Shadowchild at 7:08 PM ON 12/07/06
Thank you jehill1949. The first two especially. They need more than dictionaries, dont you think?
Anyway interesting idea. I wonder if the chemicals are harmful to the environment though. I hate to go treehugger on yall but anything involving chemicals runs the risk of being more destructive than cutting down an extra tree. Not that I support cutting down trees, but you see my point...
By dragonhung at 12:32 PM ON 12/09/06
A bit of further research says that the paper won't be commercially available for a few years yet. Maybe by that time we will have those flexible wafer-thin computer screens and paper for memos and such won't be necessary. Also, I wonder if they could make viable paper out of trash - plastic bags and bottles, post-harvest corn plants, those annoying plastic form fitted product wrappings that you always bang you knuckles on when trying to open, old political mailings from the last election (a landfill on it's own!).
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