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Basically this is a new way to make people even more anal about getting their handouts back.

Very cool. I wonder how it holds up after writing on it with various implements.

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Great idea.

Neat..I wonder how this solution compares to the use of electronic paper..probably it uses less energy at e.g. a one day conference than epaper?
People should and will also be more careful with their prints:)

cute, but it has hobbling disadvantages compared to either paper or an e-reader

The only thing you can do with this is:
print something to read, which you will not mark, and do not want to keep.

The only niche which seems to exist for such a technology is for printing novels/manuals, which are much cheaper/easier to mass produce and use on paper.

*checks the conversion rates*

The paper is over $3 a sheet + a $5500 printer? Ouch. Good luck justifying that to the office budget.

Bring the price down and then I can see this as being used more often. Usually at work paper is a non-issue since it is factored into budgets and lab fees, but the supplies are the tricky part depending on how much usage there is. $1000-$500 laser printers with $150 high yield toners that last 3 months to a year are still more economical.

I don't mean to poo-poo the tech, I think its pretty cool... just I try to look at the usefulness

i can see "paper" (which looks more like plastic) being expensive, but printer should be relatively cheap, much cheaper than $5k.
isn't it just a row of heating "pins" that heat up parts of the page to turn dark?

Fascinating tech, but as mentioned, it does not fulfill the major need I have when I want to print something (other than printing photos for framing), which is printing something to mark up with a pen.