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From: amanda@mermaid.intercon.com (Amanda Walker)
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Subject: Toner Cartridges and Environmental Safety
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Date: 6 Jun 90 14:03:24 GMT
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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 :-)...

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Amanda Walker, InterCon Systems Corporation
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"If we don't succeed, then we run the risk of failure."  -- Dan Quayle