Good innovation but paper use still kills trees. From a deathan (derivation of word vegan) perspective, buying paper which will eventually be reused is not good unless there is no other option to buying paper.

For printing stuff to function, I've been trying to buy synthetic paper from a company named Yupo, part of Mitsubishi Labratories, and found recyclable paper materials which can be printed on with inkjets (though most of their paper is designed for high volume offset printing).. This inkjet paper is from Japan and they don't sell it at their us division. I asked yupo's us division if they'd sell me some of another kind of yupo paper (cleanpaper for drawing/writing) from japan and have had no success getting an offer. A us cusomer service employee told me a month ago that he sent my message requesting this other kind of paper to Yupo's us marketing division and contacts in Japan; i've gotten no reply. If enough people offered to buy Japan only type paper, they'd probably sell it here. I'm passively interested.

Yupo does have many drawbacks. Of note: 1. Mostly for offset printers. 2. can't use standard photocopiers and standalone laser printers because it will melt the polypropelene which the paper's made out of. 3. Work's best at 20 to 25 degree celsius (70-80 degree fahrenheit I estimate) 4. It's plastic and it takes petroleum, which is highly valuable.

Maybe a process to make such plastic from vegetable oil is available; maybe there are laser printers designed to not overheat paper. The problem is that laser printers use a fusing method which bakes ink set in the desired image: maybe there is a way to cold fuse the ink to the paper. I think that the the laser probably doesn't cause a melting temperature when it scans the paper. But considering that Yupo would definately want to sell such a product, their lack of it signifys that such technology probably isn't available

While this goes against the idea of direct reuse, it bypasses the need for paper. Humans have enough problems but this probably isn't going to create any problems, if its implemented, as long as there are a lot of ink jet printers to handle quick photocopies and such.