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You do know that BPA-free just means they use BPS or some other bisphenol plasticizer, right? Right? Because all of the research was focused on BPA and nobody tested BPS even though they're quite similar chemically.

You just can't polymerize plastics without a plasticizer. It's just not allowed by chemistry. No free lunch.

If you want something that's not going to leach huge amounts of plasticizers onto your fingers, use an inkjet or a laser toner printer or a laser marking machine.

They don't really make those for receipts, though, because fingers tend to be wet and powdered toner is expensive.



There are alternatives like Blue4est available, though. They don’t use bisphenol or other chemical developers.




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