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Re:HP Labs developed a new rewritable printing technology by Animats on Sunday April 16, 2017 @03:36AM (#14124824)
Whatever happened to Toshiba's erasable printer of 2012?[1] And Xerox's reusable paper of 2006? [2]

[1] http://www.tomsguide.com/us/printer-erasable-e-STUDIO-RD30-M... [2] http://www.treehugger.com/clean-technology/xeroxs-reusable-p...

Re:HP Labs developed a new rewritable printing technology by deno on Sunday April 16, 2017 @03:50AM (#14124861)
This is really cool technology but printing out badges doesn’t seem like a very compelling use case.

ePaper is cool because it is dynamic. Without it it’s just really expensive paper.

And I don’t think this can scale to replace paper recycling. Reuse like that to be viable would have involve mechanical feeding for example. I’m guessing this is also probably heavier and thicker. Never mind that, again, why wouldn’t you just use an eInk reader instead.

Am I missing anything here?