Is Your Laser Printer Giving You Cancer?
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- Written on: August 11th, 2007
Ok, hold on to your hats for this one folks. An Australian study found that laser printers eject toner particles into the air when they are printing.
No big news there right? Everyone knows that “sweet smell of productivity” that fills the air on a big printing job. But what you don’t know is that there is a possibility those toner particles are carcinogenic.
The study noted that almost all toner cartridges contain Carbon Black, a known class B2 carcinogen. Conventional wisdom says that as long as the toner gets fused to your paper and your boss does not make you eat your documents with lunch, you are probably safe. The question the study asked was does the Carbon Black nastiness get ejected into the air that comes out of the laser printer.
