Printer cartridges banned from planes

The Obama administration moved to tighten air-cargo security, banning large toner and ink cartridges from passenger flights and demanding new inspections on 'high-risk' shipments headed to the US on all-cargo flights, writes Asia One.

The ban on toner and ink cartridges is intended to prevent a repeat of a cargo plot last month.

In that plot, printer cartridges packed with explosives were sent from Yemen via express mail companies, with the intention of blowing up planes headed to the US.

Xerox has added the Epson Stylus Pro 9900 and the Epson Stylus Pro 7900 to its range of wide-format printers, says Graphicrepro.

“The two products add to the top end of the Xerox indoor aqueous inkjet product range,” says Alewyn van Staden, wide-format product manager at Bytes Document Solutions, authorised Xerox distributor to 27 sub-Saharan African countries.

“We offer the combined Xerox/Epson solutions because this offers a best-of-breed aqueous wide-format printer, along with unique Xerox software products, as well as Bytes Document Solutions' first class nationwide sales, service and support.”

Investigators from the DIII-D National Fusion Facility and the Asdex Upgrade revealed the creation of a new imaging technique that allows physicists to visualise alpha particles that ride Alfven waves inside nuclear fusion containment vessels, states Softpedia.

Like surfers riding waves to the shoreline, alpha particles produced in immensely-hot plasma hitch a ride towards the walls of the containment vessels on high-frequency Alfven waves they excite.

Understanding what happens to alpha particles is tremendously important, given that they help heat and maintain plasma temperatures to around 100 million degrees, enough to kick-start nuclear fusion.