Office Printers are "Health Risk"


	Office Printers are "Health Risk"

Caleythia

7-31-2007 9:11 AM

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health, work

Caleythia says:

It's pretty much a given: on any given day, some news source will have an article about what scientists have just discovered is bad for us. Apparently, office equipment won't be spared this treatment.

I do wonder if I can use this at my office. "I'm sorry, I can't print out your 200 page manuscript for you. It's bad for my lungs." I don't think my boss would go for it.

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