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...waiting for those printouts - not for the sake of the paper, but for your health. In the small study, published in the Aug. 1 issue of Environmental Science and Technology, researchers found that nearly 30% of the 62 printers they tested - including laser printers from Canon, HP, Toshiba and Ricoh - emitted high levels of ultrafine toner particles, which were potentially as hazardous as cigarette smoke. In one Brisbane office, the authors found, the concentration of particulate matter per square inch was five times higher during working hours than nonworking hours, and about 3.5 times higher inside than outside, where...
...study, Lidia Morawska, a physicist at the Queensland Institute of Technology, and her colleagues analyzed printer emissions in a large open-plan office environment. The good news was that 60% of the printers they tested, including eight HP LaserJet 4050 models, four Ricoh Aficio models and one Toshiba Studio, did not emit any particles. But of the 40% that did, many, such as the HP LaserJet 1320 and 4250 models, were classified as "high-level emitters." Emissions, researchers found, were printer-specific and fluctuated depending on the age of the toner cartridge and the amount of toner a document required...
...through the 1970s and early '80s, when its heartland copier business was running into stiff competition from Japanese producers like Canon and Ricoh, Xerox (1984 sales: $9 billion) was looking for new lines of business. The company moved into, then out of, computers. It bought Crum & Forster, the big insurance company, which had heavy losses in 1984. Now Xerox is moving toward the land. During the next decade, it will oversee development of a residential and commercial community on 2,267 acres of prime real estate it owns along the Potomac River near Leesburg, in Loudoun County, Va. Total investment...
...users to connect to the Internet in wireless hot spots and securely link up with business networks. Nokia will even trot out some major companies that have agreed to kick the tires on the new devices - DaimlerChrysler for its German sales force, Pfizer for its Finnish sales force and Ricoh for its French force of copier repairmen. It's a risky announcement. After all, the gadgets won't be ready for trial until the summer, or for general commercial use until late in the year. "We usually don't jump the gun" with product announcements, Ollila told TIME...
...This is first-generation technology," says Vincent Palmieri, Ricoh's U.S. director of electronic commerce. Currently the i700's address book lets people store up to 50 e-mail addresses, but future versions may include a full-featured address book for phone numbers and addresses, he says. The camera's 8MB of internal storage could be beefed up to make room for more productivity applications and games. The i700's PC Card and CompactFlash slots on the side of the unit leave plenty of room for add-ons and software upgrades...