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A Printer That Uses No Consumables
jimboh2k sends word of a printer introduced by Japanese company Sanwa Newtec, called the PrePeat RP-3100 (a play on "repeat"). It prints on A4-sized sheets of PET plastic, and these sheets can be reused up to 1,000 times, the company says. The printer uses heat transfer technology rather than ink, and so has no consumables. There's a video of the printer in operation at the link. The PrePeat costs about $5,600 and a supply of 1,000 plastic sheets will set you back another $3,300. However, the company gives a use case in which a corporation saves $7,360 per year on consumables, as well as putting less CO2 into the atmosphere. So far the PrePeat is available only in Japan.
Are there Linux drivers ?
Instead of forwarding an email to me, he'll print it out and hand it to me.
You're obviously one of the lucky ones, who doesn't have to deal with their boss forwarding emails to them.
... and then they built the supercollider.
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XML causes global warming.
Instead of forwarding an email to me, he'll print it out and hand it to me.
You're obviously one of the lucky ones, who doesn't have to deal with their boss forwarding emails to them.
The emails he forwards to me are the stupid ones I don't need - chain letters and whatnot.
The ones that I actually need, with useful links and product specs and whatnot, he prints out.
"Work is the curse of the drinking classes." -Oscar Wilde
Every time I get an email at work that asks me not to print it unless absolutely necessary, I print it and put it in the shredder. Take that, Earth!
Yeah, but I bet you recycle the shredded paper, pussy!
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Ezekiel 23:20
Hear, hear. I'm holding out for a perpetual motion printer that consumes no energy to do its work.