"The humble office printer can damage lungs in much the same way as smoke particles from cigarettes, according to a team of Australian scientists."
In news: snipped-for-privacy@desktop.tarcus.org.uk, Ian Rawlings wibbled :
That seems to suggest 'toner' which the majority of home printers do not use! Another case of hysteria producing bad science reporting?
What, you mean second-rate scientists doing pointless headline-grabbing "research"? Surely it can't be true!
A great many moons ago when I was being trained as a laser printer engineer we were warned on a number of occasions that the toner was a carcinogen because of it's fine particulate nature and that inhaling the ozone produced by the corona wire was none too healthy either.
I'm still in one piece more or less but wouldn't choose to inhale either of those products if at all possible.
Richard
Me neither, my point was no differentiation re laser printers was made in the headline. Hence attempting to induce an unnecessary hysterical response in the general populace.
Plus the photo used to illustrate the article was of an inkjet, an Epson stylus photo I think. Journalism at it's most normal.
Oops, but they have now changed it to an image of an HP Laserjet control panel, I'm pretty sure it's been mirrored though, as in it's on the wrong side.
And the leader now says Laser printer!
Ever get the feeling you're being watched ;-)
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