Printing Without Paper?

Maurer, H.A., Sebestyen, I., & Charles, J. (1983). Printing Without Paper? IIASA Research Report (Reprint). IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria: RR-83-031. Reprinted from Electronic Publishing Review, 2 [1983].

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Abstract

More and more information is being read from cathode ray tube (CRT) screens. Despite improvements in many areas -- display technology, readability of character sets, usable amount of information on a frame, software for handling pages -- a glaring fact remains: reading and browsing through information is still more pleasant using a stack of sheets of paper than using a display screen and electronically stored information. Yet, the preparation of hard-copy pages for once-only (or never) reading seems expensive and wasteful. It is the authors' contention that this need not be the case if new concepts, such as printing on demand, and a concept we shall call multi-time paper (M-paper, for short) are used.

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