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New laser toner disappears when heated
Toshiba has reportedly come up with a special blue toner for laser printers that allows companies to reuse the paper the ink is printed on. The ink in question contains no carbon, and loses its pigment (i.e you can't see it) when exposed to high levels of heat. If only James Bond spent more time in the office.
[blockquote]Paper printed with the special ink is treated in an erasing machine, which looks like a large steel briefcase. The erasing machine can hold 400-500 A4-sized pages or 200-250 A3-sized pages. The process takes three hours. The blue colour of the ink will help distinguish it from its black, permanent counterpart.[/blockquote]
[blockquote]The "e-blue" product line also includes a ball point pen and marker which use the same ink as the toner cartridges. This allows consumers to write on paper printed with e-blue ink and still be able to decolour the ink in an erasing machine. Toshiba hopes to expand the e-blue line to copiers and large-scale, industrial-use printing in the future. The e-blue products go on sale in Japan on December 8th.
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[link=http://www.toshiba.co.jp/about/press/2003_12/pr0201.htm]Toshibas Website[/link]
[blockquote]Paper printed with the special ink is treated in an erasing machine, which looks like a large steel briefcase. The erasing machine can hold 400-500 A4-sized pages or 200-250 A3-sized pages. The process takes three hours. The blue colour of the ink will help distinguish it from its black, permanent counterpart.[/blockquote]
[blockquote]The "e-blue" product line also includes a ball point pen and marker which use the same ink as the toner cartridges. This allows consumers to write on paper printed with e-blue ink and still be able to decolour the ink in an erasing machine. Toshiba hopes to expand the e-blue line to copiers and large-scale, industrial-use printing in the future. The e-blue products go on sale in Japan on December 8th.
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[link=http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=3921519]Read More[/link]
[link=http://www.toshiba.co.jp/about/press/2003_12/pr0201.htm]Toshibas Website[/link]
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For some reason, this sounds like a really bad idea to me...
Looks like a bad idea to me.
Don't they have incinerators, shredders, and confetti machines for that sort of thing?
-drasnor
The fuser heats very high heat, about 2-3X times what my CPU runs at, 800-1000 F for fuser wire or inner core of a fuser roller-- paper passes by rapidly enough it cannot flash burn.
They must be using low heat fusing, premixed toner and developer. Hope their mix never precipitates. Most lasers are not LED fused.
John.
Enron... nice
That's a joke, right?
Or is Ink the same as Toner over there? There is a huge difference between the two.
RWB: I've never had a problem putting ****ty wrecked paper through my printer, so if they make them more rugged then they probably wont have a problem.
NS
This doesn't apply to YOUR SHIRT, of course! :banghead:
Just wash it out in cold water, should come off quite easy...
NS
NS
No ink is used on any laser printer, just toner. Ink doesn't need to be melted, it's already fluid. 2 totally dofferent technologys. The only ink that needs to be melted on a printer is on Xerox Solid Ink (thermal wax) technology (former Tektronix) but no laser or fuser are used.
Dye-sub printers are capable of producing continuous tone photographs and can easily surpass the color capabilities of the press. The process involves converting the "ink" into a gas which can be mixed with other colors extremely efficiently. Dye-sub devices can reproduce halftone patterns, making them excellent proofing devices.