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I rarely work out of my home office; last time I was permanently there was 5 years ago.

Therefore not many people know who I am.

Today I went in and saw there have been some s****y refurbishments, including a brand new carpet.

I then embarked on an 3000 page printing/collating session.

I have left an anonymous note for whoever does the printer supplies ordering, advising them they need a new black toner cartridge and new toner waste cartridge.

I left an additional note for the cleaner, apologising for dropping the aforementioned waste cartridge on the floor.

Aside from lilly pollen, I have [u]never[/u] known anything so destructive and impossible to remove in my life. Every attempt to clean it up, just magnified its destructiveness.

I suspect that a new carpet will be needed.

Is there anything more polarised from its innocuousness v destructive qualities?!


 
Posted : 11/10/2014 8:26 pm
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It needs specialist cleaning materials really, anything else just makes it worse.


 
Posted : 11/10/2014 8:27 pm
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Move the copier/printer over the mess. No-one will ever know.... 😉


 
Posted : 11/10/2014 8:28 pm
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doesn't it turn vacuum cleaners into some sort of Van Der Graaf generator as well ?


 
Posted : 11/10/2014 8:33 pm
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even better when it's a s****y carpet, and the toner-floor interface just happened to be right over an underfloor ventilation vent 🙂

the cleaner just attacked it with a hoover.

we were still finding bits of black 2 years later.


 
Posted : 11/10/2014 9:17 pm
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Toner for a electrostatic copier/printer is basically just coloured plastic powder and depending on the model sometimes a bit of magnite.

It is easy to clean up just use a vacuum cleaner that can cope with very fine particles. If unsure call out the company who service it and ask very nicely if they could send an engineer with a VAC as they will all carry a specialist VAC for toner.

Don't use a crappy VAC as it will just suck in the toner and then blow it straight back out again and in the worse case explode.


 
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Posted : 12/10/2014 9:20 am

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