Some people are very suceptable to certain chemicals some not. Some people could get cancer if they breathe in that tonor particles. For instance, Some of nuclear bomb victims (can’t say the word ‘victim’ to Japs) in Hiroshima live very long saying 70 or over. With this evidence, we can’t say nuclear bomb doesn’t cause human life or health that much.

At least with this article we can get some idea to protect ourselves from money hungry manufacturers . I think readers have choices. Some guys might want to prove this article’s claim so called to have freedom, they might breathe in large quantity of particles from torner directly to prove if it could cause lung cancer or alike. it is totally readers’ choice or freedom.

The problem with toner particles is that they are SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED TO BE MUCH SMALLER AND LIGHTER THAN ANYTHING YOU FIND IN NATURE because that makes for the best “quality” and speed of printing. The smaller the particle and the more persistent, the higher the likelihood of serious long term health problems. But the cool thing about doing business in America is that people here are like European villagers during the dark ages: they don’t believe something is dangerous unless it kills or injures one of them within a very short period of time after exposure. That’s resulted in all sorts of profitable industries here making and selling things that don’t present any health risk until years of exposure.

Epidemiologists note that at current rates, roughly 1 in 2 men will suffer from cancer in his lifetime. Now, not everyone dies. After radiation therapy and chemotherapy and perhaps $100,000 of chemical and medical treatment and then being banned from the for-profit health insurance system entirely, why there are lots of people who live for a while. I think you should all be free to get chemotherapy and radiation therapy and have the life burned right out of you with the cancer.

America is the best place in the world to do business because you can poison people’s children right in front of them and if anyone complains, they are branded as some sort of freak. “What we need is a little moderation. I’d like to ‘consume’ dangerous chemicals in moderation even though I have no idea what constitutes moderation and the people who do know are keeping it a secret because it affects their profits.”

Xerox makes solid ink printers that PROBABLY do not have this problem because the technology is so different. But who knows if those have some other problem?

There are ZERO legal requirements to test a product or chemical for safety before selling it in the United States. The default rule is that someone has to show that it is unsafe before anything happens. Now who in their right mind is going to spend their own money to test chemical and product safety? There’s no profit in it. And university laboratories and research centers face real risks in conducting such research because it angers the large corporations that provide huge sources of research funding. Do you want the Flora Hewlett Foundation or the Dave and Lucille Packard Foundation to cut your $9 million in annual university funding because you dissed HP’s printers?

I wouldn’t be surprised if those researchers end up with a big grant to pursue some other urgent and unrelated project that takes up all of their time, or alternatively wind up at the bottom of the East River.

When most Americans put money as their top priority (i.e. work at jobs they don’t like for long hours and long commutes while borrowing money to buy little trinkets where that money must be repaid by more hours at that job)… why can’t they imagine that extremely wealthy investors put money first too? If they lost their money, or even stopped making more, they’d have to do what you told them instead of you doing what they tell you to do. You lose money and you lose power and you have to live the crappy life of a poor person. Most rich people would defend their wealth and income to the death.

Unfortunately the study made NO effort to determine exactly what those particulates were. Residue from the rollers? Paper dust? Household dust being stirred up by the printer?

The two laser printers I use are pretty old, but if you were to open either of them up to work on them, they’d be exceptionally clean inside. They function properly and only have minute traces of toner loose inside.

You notice HP state that: “we do not believe there is a link between printer emissions and any public health risk”. Sounds like what the cigarette marketers said 60 years ago. They did not say their machines did not emit these particles. They just said there were no health risks reported ….. yet!