Toshiba’s new Hybrid Multifunction printers can even erase prints too

While multifunction printers are generally a cut and dried affair, Toshiba’s new second generation e-STUDIO4508LP hybrid multifunction printer has a unique feature up its sleeves – the ability to churn out erasable print. Yup, that’s right. Once you’ve printed out something using the blue toner, you can feed it back into the printer and it is able to erase whatever was printed so that it can be reused again. Magic? Indeed. It’s not infinite though, a piece of paper printed in this fashion with Toshiba’s blue toner can only be reused up to five times, which still represents an impressive figure if you look at the big picture.

According to Toshiba, assuming you print out 5,000 pages a month and actively recycle print via the use of blue toner, you will have saved on 300,000 sheets of paper over five years which works out to a ton and a half of paper and a substantial chunk of shrubbery that will not be turned into pulp.

The Toshiba Hybrid MFP series have all the usual features of course like the ability to scan, copy and fax stuff along with the option  to print using conventional black toner via a selectable menu. There’s a reason for this of course –  Important stuff which needs to be permanent can get printed in regular black toner while the usual expendable memos and the like can get printed on blue toner. In lieu of using the printers, you can opt for a dedicated paper erasing device dubbed the e-STUDIO RD301 to wipe printouts using blue toner with extreme prejudice.

Other mod-cons with the printers include achieving a variety of lofty standards for energy efficiency such as the EPEAT Gold Rating, the vaunted Energy Star and the Blue Angel rating among others. The printers also come with Toshiba’s vaunted e-BRIDGE Next tech under the hood for seamless integration into any office IT infrastructure as well. For more details such as price or other specific features, swing by Toshiba’s website at www.toshibatec.com.my.