SoyBean Toner - Are they ‘aving a larf
Well from the land of the free, we now hear that coming to a laser printer near you soon is - (drum roll) SoyBean Toner cartridges!.
In a news release this week PRC of Maine said:
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PRC Technologies, a division of Print Recovery Concepts Inc., announced today an environmental breakthrough in printing for offices, public schools and colleges. This summer, PRC will offer the first laser printer cartridges using toner powder derived from soybeans. PRC reports they will supply cartridges for the most popular laser printers under the SoyPrint brand at prices comparable to brand name versions currently available. Soy ink has been available for some time but this is the first soy toner cartridge for laser printers. Debe Overhaug, president of Print Recovery Concepts, reports a printer cartridge contains one pound of toner powder and that U.S. businesses, schools, institutions and governments consume over 100 million cartridges per year. "That means the United States consumes as much as 50,000 tons of petroleum-based toner powder each year. Now every office employee can help reduce dependence on oil every time they put a toner cartridge in their printer," Overhaug says. PRC has completed months of extensive testing and reports the print quality and number of pages per cartridge match brand name versions. Overhaug also noted soy toner does not harm the printers. SoyPrint cartridges are manufactured in the U.S. and will be shipped from warehouses all over the country.'
