Office Printers as Dangerous as Cigarettes
We should all know by now that being exposed to cigarettes can have a very detrimental affect on our health but I don’t think that any of us realised that the office printer could be just as dangerous.
However, a recent study by the University of Queensland, here in Australia, has found that some brands of laser printer can emit particles in high enough amounts so as to be just as damaging to anyone nearby as a cigarette. The study is called ‘Particle Emission Characteristics of Office Printers’ and you can find it by following the link.
Like all university studies it can be rather heavy reading but if you want to cut to the chase then scroll to the bottom and you will find a list of those laser printers that were tested by the University and a report on how well they did in the test.