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by russraburn

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We have a large color laser printer that runs on 220 electrical and sounds like a jet engine when it runs. We were not told how loud it was before placing it in our office.

It's too lound for our office, but we have limited options on where to relocate it. One option is the server room. It's small with 8 machines currently.

I'm concerned about putting the printer in the same room. Is there any issues with static electricity or excess air particles that I should be concerned with? Is it bad practice to put any copier or printer in a server room?

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by robo_dev

The biggest concerns would be:

1) having enough power to run it
2)what it does to the server room temperature,
3)whether your server room door would be propped open so people can get their printouts.

The other concern would be having lots of (flammable) paper stacked up in the server room.

I would worry most about power sags/surges caused by such a device. As long as it's on a seperate feeder from your servers, that would be the best bet.

Since the printer is grounded, it's unlikely to create a static issue.

Some laser printers emit some ozone, and there might be a bit more paper dust and toner dust, but as long as the power supply fans of your servers are not getting caked with the stuff, you should be OK.

by russraburn

1) We plan to drop a dedicated 220 circuit in so it wouldn't be on the same circuit as the servers.
2) There's a separate split system air conditioner in the server room, so that should maintain the temp.
3) There will only be a handful of people using it so that shouldn't be a problem.

All the paper will be stored in another room. Sounds like a little extra air particles might be the worse of it.

Thanks for the input!

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