Find Our Latest Video Reviews on YouTube!
If you want to stay on top of all of our video reviews of the latest tech, be sure to check out and subscribe to the Gear Live YouTube channel, hosted by Andru Edwards! It’s free!
Friday November 24, 2006 1:30 pm
Toshiba Printer Recycles Paper up To 500 Times
Toshiba has devised a printer that can re-use paper. The B-SX8R, which has been available in Japan since July, utilizes paper made of the same kind of plastic that you find on the outside of soda bottles. When this paper is exposed to heat above 180ºC the pigment turns black. However, if it is exposed to temperatures between 130 and 160º it turns white, thereby making it possible to remove previously printed images.
Similar to thermal technology used on fax machines in the 1970s and ‘80s, Toshiba claims that the printer generates 1.5 kg CO2, while most others emit five times that amount. Selling at £5 (~$10.00) each, the same sheet of paper can be recycled up to 500 times. The printer will be available in the U.S. and Europe in 2008. Check out the demo on YouTube if you want to see the £5,000 (~$9,661.00) B-SX8R in action.
Read More 
| CNet
Latest Gear Live Videos
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
© Gear Live Inc. {year} – User-posted content, unless source is quoted, is licensed under a Creative Commons Public Domain License. Gear Live graphics, logos, designs, page headers, button icons, videos, articles, blogs, forums, scripts and other service names are the trademarks of Gear Live Inc.