Erasable paper closer to prime time
Our friends over at MacWorld.com report that Xerox is one step closer to bringing their innovative erasable paper technology to market. For many small to medium sized businesses the promise of the “paperless office” is as illusive as ever. If cost alone doesn’t close the door to considering electronic document management, some small businesses simply chafe at the idea of reinventing their time tested business processes. Agam Shah’s article shows how erasable paper potentially fits within almost every company’s existing document work flow. Ready for confidential documents that erase themselves on schedule and paper that can be used over and over? Check it out.
Evidently, the paper works by being cleaned by the same printer that prints on it. You take an old piece of this paper (with print on it) and then run it through the printer again and the printer first cleans the old print off and then prints the new images on the page. Very cool stuff. If they could figure out a way to have the print disappear after a predetermined amount of time; now that would be crazy cool!