Are photocopiers sneeze inducers?

[atchoum]

Yesterday I was waiting in the uni printers, where there are a couple of photocopiers going all the time, while everyone else was busy looking for a mislaid print job, when I sneezed. OK, no big deal. But I realised that it was the third time in the week that I had sneezed in a photocopying room. And the two previous times were in two different but tiny rooms, with only room for a photocopying machine and a table.

It’s something I had never noticed before, at least not in myself, but I think I remember reading about photocopiers being sneeze inducers?

Anyone else experienced this?

[2NewGuy]

It has never happened to me personally. It's caused by final two step of printing done by laser photocopiers

the dust from fusing ink to final print causes a particle dust to enter air. That is cause.

[Trillium]

Sure, it's happened to me.

I think the other poster is right about the small ink particles, and plus, photocopiers emit some sort of pollution (ozone? I DK what) which can be sneeze-inducing in the right kind of people.