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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 jet@hackertalks.com to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] GreyShuck@feddit.uk 15 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I have had issues with the paper not feeding well and jamming as a result of high humidity in a copier/printer - but this was a cool/cold high-humidity site in the UK.

That was resolved by fitting an optional heated paper drawer.

[–] 0_0j@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

fitting an optional heated paper drawer.

Thats a new one in deed

[–] GreyShuck@feddit.uk 7 points 1 year ago

Yes. I had no idea they existed until we had the problem and looked into it.

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