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.

  • DLSchichtl@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Laser tech here. Humidity is baaad news for laser. Beyond the higher water content of the paper causing massive page curl and jamming, past the humidity causing the toner to clump and rendering toner transport parts useless, you can even see fogging on the mirrors and lenses of the laser unit.

    That being said, I hail from Arkansas, which is basically a swamp filled with bigots. If printers work here, you’ll be fine. Keep some silica packets in the paper drawers and where you store extra paper. Big thing, like 3D printers, you want to avoid drastic temp/moisture changes. It can cause all kinds of inconsistencies and even premature fuser failure. Have fun!