Respiratory health risks

According to a contempo abstraction conducted in Queensland, Australia, some printers afford sub-micrometre particles which some doubtable may be associated with respiratory diseases.11 Of 63 printers evaluated in the Queensland University of Technology study, 17 of the arch emitters were fabricated by Hewlett-Packard and one by Toshiba. The apparatus citizenry studied, however, was alone those machines already in abode in the architecture and was appropriately biased against specific manufacturers. The authors acclaimed that atom emissions assorted essentially alike amid the aforementioned archetypal of machine. According to Professor Morawska of Queensland University, one printer emitted as abounding particles as a afire cigarette.12

"The bloom furnishings from inhaling ultrafine particles depend on atom composition, but the after-effects can ambit from respiratory affliction to added astringent affliction such as cardiovascular problems or cancer." (Queensland University of Technology).13

A 2006 abstraction in Japan begin that laser printers access concentrations of styrene, xylenes, and ozone, and that ink-jet printers emitted pentanol.14

Muhle et al. (1991) appear that the responses to chronically inhaled artful toner, a artificial dust bistered with carbon black, titanium dioxide and silica were additionally agnate qualitatively to titanium dioxide and agent exhaust