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At Xerox, It's Here Today ... Gone Tomorrow! :: MAXINE
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by Edmund Jenks | February 24, 2007 at 07:36 am
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Output from a Xerox inkless printer. Images last only about one working day.
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Just when you begin to think that paper documents are about to be a thing of the past ... "Everything is going digital!" ... Xerox reveals that it still is applying R&D assets on hardcopy processes.
That's right, there is an identified need to have a printed (on a sheet of paper) document that has a ticking-time value for its intended use. The image is applied to the paper, then, after about sixteen hours, the image disappears.
To learn more about Xerox's inkless printer technology, an interview with Dr. Paul Smith, laboratory manager at the Xerox Research Centre of Canada provides updated insights.
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Edmund Jenks
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at 04:47 on February 25th, 2007
When I first read about this a few months ago it was being touted as a way to save paper.
Maybe it has more obvious uses, like documenting Government issues, which can conveniently disappear when things go pear shaped!
at 08:08 on February 25th, 2007
It is certainly a nice thought to have the ever increasing Governmental demands that are placed in our lives be printed on output from these XEROX machines.
How's this for a slogan, "XEROX ... for a greater level of freedom and self-determination!"