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Dangerous laser printer particles identified

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 11, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (14) | comments 2

The identity and origin of tiny, potentially hazardous particles emitted from common laser printers have been revealed by a new study at Queensland University of Technology.


Do laser printers emit harmful particles?

Do laser printers emit harmful particles?

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 02, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (14) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have investigated the possibility that laser printers emit pathogenic toner particles into the air, which has been a subject of public controversy. Some reports have suggested ...


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Xerox looks to make color printing more affordable

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created May 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(AP) -- The economics of color printing in big offices are simple: A page of black and white costs about 2 cents per page, while color runs about 8 cents.


Particle emissions from laser printers might pose health concern

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jul 31, 2007 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (31) | comments 0

Certain laser printers used in offices and homes release tiny particles of toner-like material into the air that people can inhale deep into lungs where they may pose a health hazard, scientists are reporting. Their study ...


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Dell Launches World's Fastest Office Color Laser Printer

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 1.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Dell today announced three new commercial workgroup printers to help businesses of all sizes increase productivity and lower their total cost of printing.


Black-and-white printing goes green with soy toner

Technology / Other

created Apr 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(AP) -- Every time you print out a page on a laser printer you're using toner made from petroleum-based products. Now there's a greener choice that shows promise: a toner product derived from soybean oil.


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Epson Develops the World's First Print Head Using an OLED Light Source

Technology /

created Mar 14, 2006 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Seiko Epson Corporation has developed the world's first print head using an OLED (organic light-emitting diode) light source.


Lexmark Color Laser Printers To Support Mentalix's Fingerprint Platform

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Mar 16, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Lexmark's C524 and C534 printing platforms will support Mentalix's CardPrint Application Program Interface, which will allow law enforcement agencies to print color imaging and fingerprint images onto blank card stocks.


Cheaper Color Printing by Harnessing Ben Franklin's Electrostatic Forces

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 13, 2006 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (26) | comments 0

Recent advances in the basic science of electrostatics could soon lead to color laser printers that are cheaper and up to 70 percent smaller than current models, a physicist reports at this week's AVS International Symposium ...


Oki Slashes Large-Format Color Printing Costs

Electronics / Hardware

created May 08, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Offices that require tabloid-size color printing should take note of this promising and relatively inexpensive (both to buy and run) solution.


HP Pushes Ink Jet Printing to 70 Pages per Minute

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Apr 12, 2007 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (17) | comments 0

HP has announced two ultra-fast office MFPs with Edgeline technology. We tell you how it fits in with other cutting-edge printing technologies.


Scientists demonstrate highly directional semiconductor lasers

Scientists demonstrate highly directional semiconductor lasers

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 27, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (31) | comments 1

Applied scientists at Harvard collaborating with researchers at Hamamatsu Photonics in Hamamatsu City, Japan, have demonstrated, for the first time, highly directional semiconductor lasers with a much smaller ...


Roadrunner supercomputer models nonlinear physics of high-power lasers

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 1

For years scientists have struggled with the difficult physics of inertial confinement fusion. This is the attempt to compress a target capsule containing isotopes of hydrogen with high-powered lasers to high enough pressure ...


Laser accelerated protons to the highest energies so far

Researchers use trident laser to accelerate protons to record energies

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 10

An international team of physicists at Los Alamos National Laboratory has succeeded in using intense laser light to accelerate protons to energies never before achieved. Using this technique, scientists can ...


Magnetic particles act as ink in new printer

Magnetic particles act as ink in new printer

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 16, 2007 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (45) | comments 0

By using a laser beam to focus and push particles against a substrate, scientist Lars Helseth of Nanyang Technological University in Singapore has designed and built a unique type of colloidal printer. Taking ...