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Pretty cool
Posted by Willmoore on May 3rd, 2008
2008
May 3
The Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) and parent company Xerox are experimenting with a type of paper and a complimentary printer that would produce documents that fade away after 16 to 24 hours. … Users don’t have to wait for the paper to fade either. By running it through the special printer made for this paper, the printer will erase the old image before putting the new one on. … The same sheets of paper can be run through the printer hundreds of time …
PARC, of course, is the research group that invented Ethernet, object-oriented programming, the GUI, and the laser printer, all in the 1970s.
May 6th, 2008 at 9:01 am
If only the Feds would totally switch over to them for all their archiving.
Seriously, how many documents are produced that only have an intended lifespan of less than 24 hours?
May 6th, 2008 at 9:05 pm
Pretty often I would say. Printing out stuff to read in the subway, printing e-mail to have in a meeting, directions to have in the car..
then there’s the stuff that you print and discover you don’t really need, or need to correct and print again..