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Article #2302Toner Cartridges and Environmental Safety
From: Amanda Walker
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 1990 14:03
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 1990 14:03
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If Canon's asking for people to send used toner cartridges back for safe disposal, it may not be as much of a "stop reloading" scam as it might appear. A number of write-white print engines use a drum coated with selenium, which makes a great drum but is quite poisonous. I don't know if the SX uses selenium (I doubt it, since it would make for an awfully expensive "one shot" catridge), but it might well have something else equally nasty. It'd still be a ploy, but it might be a complex ploy :-)... -- Amanda Walker, InterCon Systems Corporation -- "If we don't succeed, then we run the risk of failure." -- Dan Quayle
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!intercon!news From: amanda@mermaid.intercon.com (Amanda Walker) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Toner Cartridges and Environmental Safety Message-ID: <266D0D2D.4DA0@intercon.com> Date: 6 Jun 90 14:03:24 GMT References: <90May30.095014edt.18974@me.utoronto.ca> <1990Jun4.154728.11348@utzoo.uucp> <1305@chinacat.Unicom.COM> Sender: usenet@intercon.com (USENET The Magnificent) Reply-To: amanda@mermaid.intercon.com (Amanda Walker) Organization: InterCon Systems Corporation, Herndon, VA Lines: 14