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Any downsides to keeping a printer in high humidity? (hackertalks.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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TLDR: Laser printer, no AC, high humidity.

I live in Singapore, the environment here is hot, humid, pretty much all the time.

I'm lucky to live in a house with a good breeze, so I tend to keep the windows open and all the rooms, and rarely turn air conditioning on. When I do it's only for the room I'm in.

My servers and printer, are in a room with no air conditioning usually, this hasn't been a problem historically. But I just got a brother laser printer, and one of those unpacking it I noticed it had a massive desiccation packet packed inside the printable area.

I wonder if people have had any issues in high humidity environments, with either their electronics, or a laser printer?

When I used to live in an area with a heavy ocean sea breeze, I had electronics that rusted from the inside from the high salt content. So I do wonder.

I have noticed paper I leave in a high humidity environment tends to become less rigid over time.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I never thought of that!

https://all3dp.com/2/heated-3d-printer-enclosure-heater/

Googling for, and seeing the 3D printer enclosures, that could work for a normal laser printer. It'd be much cheaper than air conditioning the entire room!

[–] Cobrachicken 4 points 1 year ago

You can probably even omit any heating and just use those desiccant sacks. They can be reused.