To address the idea: I suspect you'll see the same thing you'll see when playing with a van de graaf generator- toss some snipped up tinfoil bits at a running van de graaf generator, they'll fly to it and then be repelled away as they pick up charge from the globe. Like charges repel. The reason it works in a laser printer or electrostatic copier, is the paper is not charged, rather a thin wire on the other side of the paper is charge so the toner never touches the charged object. Note that no one is telling you not to try it. Steve Greenfield
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Re: Electrostatic Toner Transfer
2004-11-14 by Steve