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Xerox develops erasable copier paper

By Allan Chochinov - November 27, 2006

in Design Business

Nobody believes in the paperless office of the future anymore, but some of stats in John Markoff's NYTimes piece are astounding. Here he references Brinda Dalal, self-styled "garbologist," who researched how people use paper in the current workplace:

Of the 1,200 pages the average office worker prints per month, 44.5 percent are for daily use--assignments, drafts or e-mail. In her research, scouring the waste produced by office workers, she found that 21 percent of black-and-white copier documents were returned to the recycling bin on the same day they were produced.

And this is the best:

What she has discovered is a notable change in the role of paper in modern offices, where it is increasingly used as a medium of display rather than storage. Documents are stored on central servers and personal computers and printed only as needed; for meetings, editing or reviewing information.

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