Xerox has demonstrated the use of reusable paper
Specialists Xerox Research Center in Palo Alto (California, USA) have created a new type of paper that can be repeatedly used for printing.
In the seventies of last century, many experts predicted the virtual disappearance of paper media through the introduction of electronic documents. But this has not happened, and in offices around the world every day spent an enormous amount of paper. In doing so, as the manager of Xerox Erik Shreyder, often printed documents such as e-mails, immediately after reading discarded. In such a situation, the emergence of paper repeated use could enable companies and organizations to reduce the cost of consumables, and at the same time, and improve ecological conditions.
The paper, established experts Xerox, contains special molecules that will be altered by exposure to ultraviolet light, resulting in a fingerprint. During the next 24 hours molecule itself returned to its original state, and the printed text disappears. The process of "erasing" can be accelerated with the assistance of heating sheet.
Printers, working with multiple paper, can be very compact. True, technology has been adapted only for monochromatic print, although in most cases, with the printing of documents for a single reading of paint and are not required. However, on the possible timing of commercialization methodology in the company until Xerox silent.
We should notice that the Xerox research center in Palo Alto was founded back in 1970 and over the course of time developed a multitude of technologies applied in modern computer industry. It is in the Xerox Research Center in Palo Alto has become the first computer mouse type, similar to the design of modern devices. Here were developed Ethernet technology and a graphical user interface, without which now impossible to interact with computers.