The Sanwa PrePeat 3100 II printer out of Japan is a tonerless, rewritable printer and will be priced at around $5600. The reusable PET plastic paper is expected to cost approx $3.35/sheet and can be reused 1000 times.

Sanwa includes a graphic on their website with ideal applications of the PrePeat 3100 II.

Finding ways to justify purchasing a Sanwa-Newtec PrePeat 3100 II is currently a little difficult. It outputs $3.35 per page reports you don’t want to save, can’t write-on and you can’t hand out. Its tonerless feature is great and Sanwa-Newtec scores on that Jubbling but since your printed documents have to stay in-house to be reused, you might as well avoid paper altogether and set a goal of being a paperless office.

An important component of Jubbling technology is that it’s easily “adoptable” and that is where I think the $5600 Sanwa PrePeat 3100 II misses the Jubbling. It’s an idea that is ahead of its time that may find a market and customer base after we see a significant price drop. [Sanwa-NewTec]