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Bad News for Digital? Future of Green Offices May Be Rewritable Paper

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An Observation by the Editors It isn't normal to print more than one page on the same date but on the wrong year at the beginning out of the ordinary... in fact it is known to be a phenomenon as observed in hoax media behind celebrity re-deaths or news stories being filed the same time the next year. 
 
But isn't there something about a large continental paper group publishing this supposed pro-digital science beneficial to and though that is understood in what it's touting in true numbers if you study the specialty field, well, we still we don't it's still odd in an era where we are starting to not trust to just trust the strange sounding overly "chemical" sounding names in foods.  and something feels cold about it. It's because its obviously dismissive of the paper industry and its performance in 2018?

Positives for the paper industry in 2018 have included the classic and as of now up to date benefits we can consider (please let us know if more come to mind):



1. Adult magazine print has increased for the first time in a generation. 
2. Readership of books is growing among a number of generations - and in paperback no less.
3. Electronic reading pads like the Amazon Kindle - once thought of as a corporate gold pot now seeming relegated to history as the company continues to build into retail technology over "igadget" technology. And not the good kind that we trade as much as the kind we leave on tray tables before throwing away because we realize their batteries are ruined by time and that the thing about e-things, is, especially when it comes to the printed word on paper:
4.They stop being cool after awhile while
5.Books are timeless. Only children think its foolish to not read a book. To adults it represents valuing something beyond the world we live in...
6.and that world we live in happens to be filled with the constant harassmant of interferrence. 
 
So... who really wants to read a book in 2019 on a small-battery family or work device glowing little phone you have to scroll all the time, or would you like something you can actually feel? 

No offense to Kindle readers... unless they bought them to hate paper because it turns out that for people who truly have them for enjoyment are more willing to say in polls they are more willing to buy books printed on paper made by our industry, by the pulp and paper industry. 

Perhaps paper companies need to embrace the courage to communicate the urgency of this persuasive message that cam help re-birth paper not just for the long time in a generation, and not truly in any generation by itself since the large record handling days of the 1970s without temporarily coinciding with the ultimately destructive digital 

Books are not just for old people. Even after the critics pointed to the success of the genre of young readers of fiction as some sort of reason to tease them for liking a captivating book. We have all heard "critics" of Harry Potter-
 
Link: The Future of Green Offices May Be Rewritable Paper
 By vital  Paper, R&D
(January 10, 2017) Scientists have hacked a standard inkjet printer to create multicolor images that can be erased and reprinted eight times on the same sheet of paper.
A team of Chinese researchers recently combined some nifty chemistry with a standard inkjet printer to create multicolor images that can be printed and erased eight times using a single sheet of rewritable paper. The findings ["Dynamic metal-ligand coordination for multicolour and water-jet rewritable paper"] were reported in the journal Nature Communications.
To read complete article Go To: The Future of Green Offices May Be Rewritable Paper (Source: seeker.com / Nature Communications)
Cover Image: Structure and multicolor printing of rewritable paper.
A. schematic illustrations of four-layer structure used to create the rewritable paper based on L 1.
B. Colorful image of a flower drawn by different metal salts aqueous solution as ink. Scale bar = 1 cm.
C. An image of trees printed using a customized black inkjet cartridge filled with FeCl2 aqueous solution. Scale bar = 1 cm.
D. Colorful printing of the badge of Institute of Advanced Materials using an inkjet cartridge filled with FeCl2, Zn(NO3)2 and Co(NO3)2, respectively. Scale bar = 1 cm. Courtesy: Nature Communications

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