Posted November 06, 2018 17:23:22 A new paper-based inkjet printer is causing some ink to drip out of the device’s feed.
Auckland man Andrew Gough says his inkjet printing washes out at night and he’s found it’s made his nose bleed.
“When I first got it, I had a huge, huge paper bag in my mouth.
So I was just thinking, ‘Oh my God, I’m gonna have a paper bag full of ink.'”
The paper bag was his work bag, he said.
“The ink would get stuck in the paper bag and it would be drying out.”
I started to get a little bit of pain and the next thing I knew I was in hospital with the smell of burning paper and it was awful.””
I’ve got a lot of scars on my nose from it.
“It just makes me feel like I’m having a bad time.”
Mr Gough was diagnosed with the paper-bug in January, but it took another two weeks before he was able to get it out.
He was treated for two weeks at Auckland General Hospital before going to the Aotearoa Hospital for Children in Dunedin for tests.
“There was nothing in my system at the time, so I was left to fend for myself,” he said.
“I didn’t know what I was going to do about it, and I was thinking, what are you going to feed this machine?”
Then I saw a lot more people with paper bags and I realised it’s not just one issue.
“You can feed it for a long time and it doesn’t get better and it just gets worse and worse.”
Mr Bowers from the Otago University of Technology says it’s a common problem.
“What we’ve found is the paper bags get very soft and they are also pretty prone to drying out, so that can lead to a lot less ink and less paper,” he says.
“If you’re feeding a paper-bagged machine for long periods of time, you’re going to get quite a lot.”
We’ve found that if you put the machine in a low temperature environment, it tends to just overheat and that’s the reason why it dries out.
“There are a number of things that can go wrong with paper-bags and it can be quite a frustrating experience for the user.”
Mr Trew said he was concerned for Mr Gough’s safety and wanted to be sure people didn’t try to feed the machines in the community.
“My concern is that there’s a lot that we don’t know about the safety of paper-box and paper-printed products.”
They can come into contact with people, they can get burnt, and they can leak ink, so it’s really important that people have a safe place to feed their paper-enabled machines.
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