Comments on: Is Your Laser Printer Giving You Cancer?

By: emilia bertolini

emilia bertolini — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 16:44:46 +0000

I sat in front of this printer for years and have tongue cancer

By: Melissa @ cancer hats

Melissa @ cancer hats — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 11:58:22 +0000

This is extremely scary and nerve-racking for me. I constantly use the photocopying machine to reproduce things in my work!!!! Oh no! I think I want to give my job up if it’s going to cost me my health.

By: Genite

Genite — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 10:26:00 +0000

This is very scarry and no one including me, don’t know about this kind of things happen when we are using printer machine, So my thought is to prevent this cut the paper printing work like billing etc. by e-mail.
What guys say?

By: Keith

Keith — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:36:43 +0000

Yup, toner contains carbon black, lots of it. Carbon black is carcinogenic. Clearly, laser printer fusers are not perfect. Just look inside any laser printer that has been in operation for a few weeks. Thus, some microscopic toner gets into the air during printing, during opening the toner package, during pulling the tape, during cleaning the printer, during taking the toner cartridge out and shaking it to get the most copies for your badly shrunken dollar. I think the only question here is whether you will die of something besides cancer before the cancer induced by the toner gets bad enough to kill you first.

I have been told by those who actually know the truth (inside and outside HP) to keep toner out of your lungs, off your clothing and off your body. The truth is that it is naughty stuff and if you get exposed to enough of it, it will do naughty stuff to your body.

Don’t you just love the smell of new tennis balls when you first open the can !!!

By: Messi

Messi — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 03:29:42 +0000

scary.. but well said that it will at least be a decade till we get anything conclusive

By: Printer Drivers

Printer Drivers — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:18:49 +0000

It’s not surprising really though is it, I think all fine particles suspended in air pose a cancer risk if repeatedly inhaled.

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