The Toshiba B-SX8R is a new kind of printer that not only prints fast but saves paper. The printer can actually erase what is on a used sheet and then use it for reprint. It heats the pigments in the paper from 130 to 170 degrees which lifts the black off the paper. The sheet is now totally white and they can preform this action more then 500 times on one sheet of paper. There is also another piece of technology that, if combined with the printer mentioned above, would make for one awesome printer. What this device does is it uses a printhead that consists of individual microchip segments. Each of these segments measures roughly 20mm and they contain 6,400 nozzles. This then allows the printer to print at speeds of 2 pages a second. This could allow any printer to print thousands of pages in minutes. This would definitely be beneficial for schools to use since a lot of teachers have to print mass amounts of paper for their students. Coupled with the printer above, they could ‘reprint’ the excess paper they may have so they don’t waste that paper. Watch the video after the jump
Via: TechEBlog
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Yeah, really. I would kill to have something like this for myself. Not only do I love printing, but I have to do a lot of it for school and spanish. It would be nice to print then reprint over it and save money from paper.
2 pages per second * 60 sec per minute = ”thousands of pages per minute”?
”thousands of pages in minutes”
He said minutes...
If we say ”thousands” is 2000: 2000/120 = 16 minutes for 2000 pages.
Yep, looks like minutes to me.
My only thought with the printer is that it seems to be using some sort of glossy paper, which I doubt will be as cheap as normal paper.
Economical if you’re actually using it 500 times, but if you’re actually aiming to keep the copy and may only erase it 3 or 4 times, it’s probably cheaper to just throw out the paper and print again on normal cheap paper.