"No [existing] printer company is going to support this. They all make their money on the toner, ink, drums, etc. If I understand this correctly there would be virtually NO consumables. Maybe a new box of paper now and then but the paper gets reused too."
Isn't that sort of like saying that no big camera company is going to support making digital cameras because then there wouldn't be any consumables, and even the memory chip used to store the photos could be manufactured by someone else? CLEARLY people will jump on the idea of re-usable paper and the printers that go with it IF IT'S PRICED RIGHT. Furthermore, this is not an all or nothing deal: standard paper and printers aren't going to have to disappear for this to work. In fact (and again depending on price) companies could easily phase out some of their standard printers for the new re-usable paper printers to give employees a choice about printing "permanently" or "re-usably".
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