PRINTERS EMIT PARTICULATE MATTER
Laser printers, faxes and photocopiers use toner for printing, a mixture of different substances containing micro-pollutants that usually, if they are not carefully filtered, remain in the air and can cause respiratory problems. Whenever these machines are in operation emit fine particles which escape from the openings used for ventilation.
These powders are deposited often indoors and poorly ventilated spaces, such as offices.
The best solution is for attachment to the printers of Airflow, a simple, economic and ecological filter that reduces the particulate matter about 94%.
SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHES HAVE TRIED
According to a study by the Australian University “Queensland University of Technology (QUT),” some printers emit much particulate matter how many cigarettes. Inhalation of this dust, depending on their composition, has consequences that can cause respiratory or cardiovascular diseases.
Queensland University of Technology (QUT)
www.qut.edu.au
THE BEST AND CHEAPEST SOLUTION
The best solution is for attachment to the printers of Airflow, a simple, economic and ecological filter that reduces the particulate matter about 94%.
Airflow is a filter designed to maintain clean air in your Office or home and is very easy to use: just apply it directly on the air intake and replace it whenever the need arises. Suitable, in its 3 formats, in all types of printers, it does not reduce in any way the performance of the machines to which it is applied, and, once removed, there is no risk of dispersion of micro dust caught, then it can be safely disposed of with household waste.
Airflow is applied using a simple sticker, would not contribute to the heating of the printer, but easily the health protection of the working environment.
Our filter applies only on printers with air extractors.
is a filter designed to maintain clean air in your Office or home and is very easy to use: just apply it directly on the air intake and replace it whenever the need arises. Suitable, in its 3 formats, in all types of printers, it does not reduce in any way the performance of the machines to which it is applied, and, once removed, there is no risk of dispersion of micro dust caught, then it can be safely disposed of with household waste.
Airflow is applied using a simple sticker, would not contribute to the heating of the printer, but easily the health protection of the working environment.
Our filter applies only on printers with air extractors.
is suitable for all printers equipped with openings used to dissipate the heat being printed and placed, usually on one side. It is from these openings that come out the fine dust.
Airflow is applied using a simple sticker, would not contribute to the heating of the printer, but easily the health protection of the working environment. Filter replacement can be done visually, stating wear, approximately 30,000/50,000 copies after.
Perfectly ecological, after using can be thrown in the trash.
HOW DO I APPLY
Airflow is a filter designed to maintain clean air in your Office or home and is very easy to use: just apply it directly on the air intake and replace it whenever the need arises. Suitable, in its 3 formats, in all types of printers, it does not reduce in any way the performance of the machines to which it is applied, and, once removed, there is no risk of dispersion of micro dust caught, then it can be safely disposed of with household waste.
Airflow is applied using a simple sticker, would not contribute to the heating of the printer, but easily the health protection of the working environment.
Our filter applies only on printers with air extractors.
Airflow product stems from the awareness of the responsibilities that a manufacturer of air filters on the market for 30 years more in the user: provide maximum protection to the person by any agent harmful to their health. It is in this spirit that arises Airflow wanting to provide valuable support to the protection of human health in the working environment by protecting workers from dangerous and harmful toner dust released from laser printing equipment.
The protection of workers in the workplace is regulated by article 2087 of the civil code, where it is revealed the employer’s obligation to preserve the health of workers by taking all the necessary precautions to protect them. A careful analysis of the text highlights the importance of proper information compared to what may represent a potential and actual source of risk to the health of the operators. The continuous research results, often used to establish the parameters of health risk within companies, bring daily highlights new critical issues: it is the employer’s awareness about the State of the art research and the resulting achievements that rests the responsibility to prepare all the necessary systems in the protection of their employees.
Numerous national and international studies have highlighted how the fine dust are a major source of risk: very often we talk about urban traffic block in order to bring down the content of particulate matter in the air we breathe. Far less often, unfortunately, you hear of block of productive activities in an Office because of an excessive presence of particulate matter present in the limited amount of air, often not well recirculated inside spaces. One of the main causes of the presence of particulate matter inside the closed working environment is the release of particulate matter (mainly from the black smoke carbon block contained in toner) by thermal technology laser printing equipment.
Using photochemical processes, high temperature, magnetism and radiation, laser printing technology processes: toner, paper and environmental gases. The development raises the issue of multiple chemicals, depending on the type of paper, toner formula, by the presence of other pollutants in the environment, technology and the maintenance of the equipment.
Using photochemical processes, high temperature, magnetism and radiation, laser printing technology processes: toner, paper and environmental gases. The development raises the issue of multiple chemicals, depending on the type of paper, toner formula, by the presence of other pollutants in the environment, technology and the maintenance of the equipment.
The process as a whole, pollutes the air of the workplace, lending a volatile organic compound (VOC) particles of various physical quantities also fine and ultra fine particles (PM10 and PM1-PM2 .5-PM0 .1) to insidious dimensions of nano particles. (PM0 .0007). VOC emissions are more frequent in: benzene, formaldehyde and ozone.
Some of the VOCS further found are: styrene, titanium oxide, hexavalent chromium, Silicon, manganese and Platinum crystals, salts, bis-phenol-A, zinc, thermoplastic resins, carbon black or carbon black, pigments, organic pigments, waxes, amorphous silicon dioxide, colloidal amorphous silica, aluminum, Tin, aldehydes, ethyl benzene, xylene, Dean, alkanes, ISO nitro pyrene, phthalates, isocyanates, chlorine, etc.
The results are clear long, thin carbon nanotubes showed the same effects as long, thin asbestos fibers; they have the potential to cause mesothelioma. Carbon particulate matter (carbon black or carbon black) which is the basis of toner powder, in medical literature is historically the first substance to which has been tried a conceptual association with the occurrence of tumours in humans
The moral responsibility to know the problem caused Italfilter to create Airflow, a filtering solution for the workplace can preserve efficiently and economically the health of employees, especially in those cases, which are the common majority, where the plot device is for convenience place close to the operator. On specially designed filter elements have been developed and optimised with the aid of the best manufacturers worldwide able to certify the results unequivocally, scientifically comparable with a view to providing an effective product and certifiable.
Were conducted research with the ultimate goal of developing efficient filtering media increasingly able to guarantee maximum efficiency at lower values of particle size by ensuring fewer pressure drop during filtration: in other words Filter always better ensuring maximum air flow necessary for the proper functioning of printing equipment. This development, the result of continuous tests and updates on materials, is easily detected by efficiency and pressure drop charts that accompany the materials used by Airflow. Advanced research will lead to short to identify new materials “patented” eco filter element for maximum sustainability by promoting energy saving of the same through a pressure drop very low to the benefit of overall efficiency.
This is Italfilter’s AIRFLOW daily commitment for the protection of human health and the environment in which we live.
