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Get all the paper that you've printed by mistake in the office, and load up the paper tray. Then deprinting energises the paper in some fancy way, and detaches the toner from the paper, gives it a quick iron and out pops lovely clean paper ready to be used again.
I suggest this as I've just wasted
half a tree fiddlng around with the alignment on a cheque print report.
Look, before anyone tells me that 'it would be a great idea, but it sounds like magic' - it may need a new type of paper, new type of toner, new type of printer....!
Zen_20copier
[hippo, Feb 16 2005]
Dry Erase Printer
Another option [Worldgineer, Feb 16 2005]
yep.
http://www.gizmag.c...elf-for-reuse/9283/
[2 fries shy of a happy meal, Aug 10 2008]
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New toner. You'd be better trying to turn the toner colourless in my opinion. I like the ironing option though. [+] |
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If heat fuses the toner and the paper, maybe extreme cold could free it. I'd pay lots to have a laser-printer with liquid nitrogen "smoke" pouring out. |
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An ink-jet cartridge that prints Liquid Paper (or bleach)? |
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I like the idea of little tanning beds, where dye-printed paper could sit for a week catching UV rays and bleach fumes. |
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I've reused the backs of printed sheets. Often they make it through without jamming. |
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Dissapearing inkjet ink. Just make sure you read it quickly. |
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Perhaps it could glue the printed sides of two sheets facing each other, so you end up with one blank sheet of heavy bond. |
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My anno got longer and longer and finally turned into an idea of it's own - see "Recycling Laser Printer". |
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MIT are working on re-printable paper based not on ink, but a property of the paper itself. |
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[no link, too lazy to google it] |
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Print the page completely black, then have white ink to print your report in negative? Not very ink-thrifty, but it would look cool... |
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I think you meant "completely black"? |
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I opened up a laser printer here today to change the toner, and noticed a lot of white powder around the corona wire - could this be anti-toner? |
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Yes I did [robinism], thanks for pointing it out. Now amended... |
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