{"id":23819,"date":"2012-04-26T16:50:31","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T16:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/laser-unprinters\/"},"modified":"2012-04-26T16:50:31","modified_gmt":"2012-04-26T16:50:31","slug":"laser-unprinters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/laser-unprinters\/","title":{"rendered":"Laser Unprinters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stoweboyd.com\/post\/21850957977\/laser-unprinters\">stoweboyd<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Researchers at the University of Cambridge have devised a way to \u2018unprint\u2019 laser printed pages, so that the paper can be reused.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cam.ac.uk\/research\/news\/use-a-laser-save-a-tree\/\">Use a laser, save a tree<\/a> &#8211; via University of Cambridge<\/p>\n<p>Dr Julian Allwood, Leader of the Low Carbon Materials Processing Group at the University of Cambridge, and David Leal-Ayala, PhD student at this group, tested toner-print removal from paper by employing a variety of lasers.<\/p>\n<p>The results showed that toner-print can be removed effectively without causing significant paper damage, allowing the paper to be reused, without being discarded, shredded or sent to a recycling plant.<\/p>\n<p>Coupled with advances in low-energy laser scanning technology, copiers and printers, the research means that toner-removing devices may be a common sight in offices around the country in the future.<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>The study predicts that the emissions produced by the pulp and paper recycling industry could be at least halved as a result of paper reuse. \u201cThis could represent a significant contribution towards the cause of reducing climate change emissions from paper manufacturing\u201d Allwood said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The smartest thing would be to build a single device that both prints and unprints. You\u2019d load in either new blank or old printed paper, and out would come newly printed output.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As Nicholas Negroponte foretold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>stoweboyd: Researchers at the University of Cambridge have devised a way to \u2018unprint\u2019 laser printed pages, so that the paper can be reused. Use a laser, save a tree &#8211; via University of Cambridge Dr Julian Allwood, Leader of the Low Carbon Materials Processing Group at the University of Cambridge, and David Leal-Ayala, PhD student [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-6cb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}