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New way to save energy: Disappearing ink

Think of it as the future of today's paper.

The Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) and parent company Xerox are experimenting with a type of paper and a complementary printer that would produce documents that fade away after 16 to 24 hours. A restaurant, for instance, could print its daily specials on a piece of paper, attach the pieces of paper to menus, and then collect the sheets of then-blank paper in the morning to run through the printer again.

How does it work? The paper is coated with photosensitive chemicals that turn dark when hit with UV light. … Read more

Xerox melts ink to stay green

PALO ALTO, Calif.--It looks and feels like a square, yellow crayon.

But it's actually a lot more sophisticated than that. It's ink in solid form (aptly called "solid ink") made of a polymeric resin, and Xerox researchers are using it, combined with advances in print head technology to make a greener printer.

Solid ink is different from what's used in the average desktop printer. Instead of buying cartridges filled with liquid ink, which are inserted into small print heads that race back and forth to transfer an image to paper, solid ink is melted, … Read more

A printer that serves two markets

Because Fuji Xerox Printers is better known in office circles than in the home, we didn't think we'd have much to write about its new DocuPrint C1110B laser printer. After all, most of its stuff are specific for a demanding office environment. The C1110B can output at 12ppm (color), start up in 16 seconds and kick one page out the barrel in 12. It also has a decently deep media tray that can store half a ream's worth of A4-sized paper (250 sheets) and accommodate an assortment of paperweights.

Then we saw the price. At $310, it'… Read more

Office regime: Print, recycle, repeat

Printing documents and tossing them out almost immediately is a common ritual in the workplace--one that's not so environmentally friendly. According to a recent study by Xerox, as much as 40 percent of what's printed in an office is thrown away or into the recycling bin on a daily basis. And if it's pitched to a blue bin, it still takes energy to recycle that paper.

Xerox, of course, has a technology solution to the problem. In recent months, the printing company came out with a "green" paper that promises to cut the environmental footprint … Read more

Xerox unveils smart-document software

The lives of office file clerks may get a little easier if Xerox delivers on its promise of new smart-paper technology.

Researchers from the company's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) on Thursday announced three new technologies that augment digital and paper documents.

First is the hybrid categorizer, software that uses computer vision and other machine learning techniques to understand text and general images on a digital page. Then it links the text and images so the document can be categorized. For example, an insurance company could use the software to digitally file a document containing an image of a … Read more

Copier translates languages on the fly

OK, so maybe wood engraving isn't exactly the kind of advancement in desktop printers that we've all been waiting for. This one is esoteric as well, but there are probably a few more people who will find it a bit more useful: It translates while making copies.

Fuji Xerox has developed a prototype that can scan Japanese text and print it out in translated English, Chinese or Korean without changing the layout of the original page. "Fuji Xerox's secret lies in networking the unnamed copier to a dedicated translation server and combining this with algorithms that … Read more