What's enhanced DPI with Laser printers?

[Spork Schivago]

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i would have taken that to the petrol station and tried to blow it out with the air line.

It was a nightmare man! Got toner all over my hands just moving it to my office. Ended up putting it in a plastic bag and just leaving it on the shelf. The same guy was trying to get into the IT department. My boss at the time (girlfriend of the company's owner), she was great and real nice, she gave him a job, doing tape backups. We lost the RAID array on one of the servers, the main server. We called it the Terabox because it had a terabyte worth of 50GB (or so) hard drives in it. They got some error message about something becoming corrupt and it wouldn't turn on. We tried various things but at one point in time, someone made the call to grab the tape backups and restore a bunch of stuff so the other companies we worked with had access to their stuff while we were trying to fix it. We went to the tapes, every single one empty. We call the guy to find out why there were no tape backups. He said the drive just started giving some error message, asking something about formatting, and he just hit yes, instead of telling anyone. That was terrible! Everyone was freaking out. I ended up fixing the problem though. The ext3 filesystem just lost the journal and all I had to do was mount it as ext2 to access the data, then I was able to just to recreate the journal. I ended up getting a promotion, an award and the only money bonus ever handed out in the whole entirety of the business because of that! Still got the picture of me accepting the award some wheres.

[stj]

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I see the one we have is listed as being Linux compatible and it's wireless. I wonder how true this actually is.

you should download the manual.
the one i have says that you cant scan over ethernet either, only usb.

not sure if that's a driver problem or just that there is no standard for scanning over networks.

[diif]

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i would have taken that to the petrol station and tried to blow it out with the air line.

Not sure if you're joking or for real ?

[stj]

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for real, i use air-lines for all kinds of cleaning.
it's not like there is anything to lose trying.

[Spork Schivago]

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you should download the manual.
the one i have says that you cant scan over ethernet either, only usb.

not sure if that's a driver problem or just that there is no standard for scanning over networks.

Okay. Will do. I mean it's not a big deal if I can't. It'd just be nice. Not too much native Linux support for printers and stuff. And by that, I mean companies that actually support Linux. I know there's a lot of Linux support out there, ie, open source drivers, etc, that the community has created.

I contacted Linksys about one of their print servers, hoping they'd release the source code so I could make it Linux compatible. They said they outsourced for some of the source code to China and don't have permission to release it. I thought that was too bad. Maybe when I get smarter, I can tear apart the print server, see what type of chip is on there and try dumping the contents. Then I can try figuring out the format or whatnot and work on creating an open-source version. That'd be great. Kinda like what they do with the OpenWRT stuff.

[Spork Schivago]

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for real, i use air-lines for all kinds of cleaning.
it's not like there is anything to lose trying.

It's probably dangerous if you breath that toner stuff in, isn't it? You'd probably have to use some sort of breathing apparatus so you don't accidently get any in your lungs. Might not be good for the environment either though.

[diif]

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for real, i use air-lines for all kinds of cleaning.
it's not like there is anything to lose trying.

Teeth maybe ? would make my day pissing off a pikey lol

Ok, so the crazy side of me says, "yeah, blow it away from you it would be cool and fun and it's not my garage or clothes or car it might go on, right ?".

The sensible side says "its not worth pissing people off just to prove how much of a mess you know laser toner and their "empty" cartridges can be"

[diif]

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It's probably dangerous if you breath that toner stuff in, isn't it? You'd probably have to use some sort of breathing apparatus so you don't accidently get any in your lungs. Might not be good for the environment either though.

Like any dust you don't want to breathe it in, but the EPA don't describe it as either a carcinogen or a mutagen.

[Spork Schivago]

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Like any dust you don't want to breathe it in, but the EPA don't describe it as either a carcinogen or a mutagen.

I know what a carcinogen is, but what's a mutagen? Sounds like the stuff the TMNT's got into when they were just normal turtles! Probably something real bad though, right? Like something that mutates your cells at a molecular level or something.

[keeney123]

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You know that usually compressor lines have oil in them to lubricate the air power tools being used? I would use a vacuum to suck up the majority of it and then put a partial mask on and take it outside and use compressed clean air in a can to plow out the remainder.

[stj]

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the airline for tyre inflation is outside, and not lube-injected.
your just blowing toner across the tarmac.

[stj]

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brother drivers
http://support.brother.com/g/b/downl...s_eu_as&os=127

btw, put the bitch online via ethernet and it will do a standalone firmware update

[diif]

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I know what a carcinogen is, but what's a mutagen? Sounds like the stuff the TMNT's got into when they were just normal turtles! Probably something real bad though, right? Like something that mutates your cells at a molecular level or something.

From Wikipedia. "In genetics, a mutagen is a physical or chemical agent that changes the genetic material, usually DNA, of an organism and thus increases the frequency of mutations above the natural background level. As many mutations can cause cancer, mutagens are therefore also likely to be carcinogens."

[Spork Schivago]

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From Wikipedia. "In genetics, a mutagen is a physical or chemical agent that changes the genetic material, usually DNA, of an organism and thus increases the frequency of mutations above the natural background level. As many mutations can cause cancer, mutagens are therefore also likely to be carcinogens."

Wow, and we have chemicals that can actually change DNA? That's insane!

[stj]

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milliwave scanners at the airport will rip your DNA appart,
microwave energy can damage your DNA if you spend all your time sitting next to a router or under a fone-tower.

just apply common sense.

[Spork Schivago]

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I didn't know routers used microwaves. Are you sure about that? I don't know what milliwave scanners are. Are they those new TSA scanners at the airport? Wife and I had to go through them once. It was that, or we had to let them feel us up a little bit while they searched us for weapons and everything.

[stj]

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gigahertz band.
2.4Ghz to be precise.

and yes, milliwave scanners are the "RapiScan" booths sold by rabbi chertof's company to homeland security - while he was in charge of it!!

dont worry, they tested them on palastinians for several years and none of them died from cancer.
just bullets and bomb-shrapnel!!

/flame away/

[Compgeke]

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You know that usually compressor lines have oil in them to lubricate the air power tools being used? I would use a vacuum to suck up the majority of it and then put a partial mask on and take it outside and use compressed clean air in a can to plow out the remainder.

Don't use a vacuum or air compressor on toner, if a spark ignites it it'll start a fairly nice fire. Here's a youtube video on how fast it burns: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMnTloEr-kQ

Cold water and paper towels is the way to go. Sure, it takes a bit longer but it's better than either making a huge mess by blowing it or starting a fire from static electricity. Xerox mentions this in one of their MSDS sheets, stating to use a vacuum with a conductive hose and fully sealed motor.

Just a heads up though, the odds of dumping toner on a printer like a brother is very unlikely, unless you do something stupid like smash a cart with a hammer. It usually only happens in printers that take loose toner (like screw in a bottle or pour a bottle in) or when a waste drum overfills on printers without a cutoff.

Like any dust you don't want to breathe it in, but the EPA don't describe it as either a carcinogen or a mutagen.

Both HP and Brother list their toner as being carcinogenic in the MSDS for their toner.
Links:

[diif]

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Both HP and Brother list their toner as being carcinogenic in the MSDS for their toner.
Links:

That's listing carbon Black as a possible carcinogen. Laser toner is a combination of things and the data sheet even mentions it's not carcinogenic in this form.

Your Brother link isn't working.