[throwanem]

My own review is mixed. Those wax-block printers (Xerox Phaser) gave good color rendering and resolution even 20 years ago, but at the cost of waxy-feeling pages and poor thermal stability - leave a stack of printed sheets in a hot car for an hour and you'd come back to find them stuck together, and peeling them apart would leave half a given sheet's impression stuck to the back of the one on top of it. Too bad if you find this out after the client visit right before the pitch meeting where you need to hand those printouts around, and without enough time to run back to the office and make more.

[vxNsr]

Interesting, they didn’t have a way to “rasterize” the ink to the page completely.

You could take that in a different direction… find a paper that allows you to wash the ink off it, to make reusable paper…

[bzzzt]

I believe this is the same technique (dye sublimation) that Canon uses in their small photo printer range (Selphy line). Those printers work with ink sheets where the ink is transferred one color at a time (yellow, red and blue). After that, a fourth sheet containing some fixing material is printed over the photo which makes it durable. Quality is much better than comparable inkjet+photo paper solutions. But it's really expensive...

[throwanem]

Dye sublimation is a different technology - wax (or "solid ink") printers are to inkjets as crayons are to fountain pens.