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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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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.


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 ...


Scientists Make Ink Disappear, Make Paper Reusable

Scientists Make Ink Disappear, Make Paper Reusable

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (16) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- Despite ongoing efforts to save the trees, many offices print high volumes of paper documents on a daily basis. Although many companies encourage paper recycling, both disposing of and recycling ...


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 ...


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Dell Launches World's Fastest Office Color Laser Printer

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | 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.


Electrostatic surface cleaning

Electrostatic surface cleaning

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

It's often the little things that count in industrial manufacturing processes. Particles less than half the diameter of a hair in size can significantly impair quality in production. For example, there should ...


Hydrogel particles pave way for new bedside diagnostics

Hydrogel particles pave way for new bedside diagnostics

Chemistry /

created Mar 08, 2007 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (16) | comments 0

MIT researchers have created an inexpensive method to screen for millions of different biomolecules (DNA, proteins, etc.) in a single sample--a technology that could make possible the development of low-cost ...


New insights into health and environmental effects of carbon nanoparticles

New insights into health and environmental effects of carbon nanoparticles

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Aug 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 2

Carbon nanoparticles are widely used in medicine, electronics, optics, materials science and architecture, but their health and environmental impact is not fully understood.


Tracing ultra-fine dust

Tracing ultra-fine dust

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Limit values for fine dust emissions are based on total particle weight. It is the ultra-fine particles, however, that are particularly harmful to health. A new technique separates them by size and identifies ...


Janus particles: particles with two faces

Janus particles: particles with two faces

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Sep 18, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology at the University of Twente, The Netherlands, have devised a method for fabricating Janus particles, so called because, like the Roman ...



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