Lets face it, the current printer technology we all use on a daily basis is old. Printer ink and toner cartridges have been around for ages, surely something new and more eco-friendly must be on the way. Well printer technology has still been advancing even though the advances don’t seem to be effecting the mainstream for example ink-less and toner-less printers do exist, but are either to expensive or just not available to the public. Most of these “advances” seem to be aimed towards making a more eco-friendly printer, such as the PrePeat printer.
The PrePeat printer doesn’t use ink or toner, instead it uses a special thermal head to print. The thing that makes this printer even more eco-friendly is that it can recycle paper. You can put in a piece of paper that already has something printed on it, and the printer erases it using the thermal head and prints straight back on to the paper.
This all sounds great, looks like we might be out of business selling ink and toner cartridges…
Or maybe not, the printer isn’t really as perfect as it may seem. The main downfall is that the printer only uses a special type of plastic paper, this paper only comes in reams of 1000 sheets and costing around £2.12 a sheet it’s not the cheapest way to save the planet. The printer itself costs over £3500 and although you can use a sheet of the plastic paper up to 1000 times, I still don’t think it’s the answer to our eco-printing problems… yet.
Tags: Cartridges, Hp Ink cartridge recycling, printer, printer cartridges, Recycling
we must concentrate more on eco-friendly materials and practices to help save the environment.
i love to buy eco-friendly products like mats, seat covers and also garbage bags
almost all of our new products these days are Eco Friendly, it is nice to know that we are concerned about the environment”*;