It was pretty cool to watch
I'm pretty sure it's unusual for steam to come out of a laser printer. I bought my printer brand-new in 2005, and I don't think they've made water-cooled laser printers since the mid-90's.
Another hypothesis: I was printing out my portfolio at the time, so it's possible the printer wasn't steaming, it was smoking from the red-hot newspaper layouts it was producing.
Then again, the printer had spent the last four months in a box in the garage, so it might have been getting rid of accumulated moisture.
Water-cooled printer, red-hot layouts, or excess moisture? I don't think we'll ever know for sure.
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The last water-cooled laser printer was manufactured by the Vickers Automatonic Clarke-Works in 1918. Only a few were actually produced before the end of the Great War--far too few to have much of a strategic impact on the conflict. The handful that did make it to the front, however, were favourites of the troops--printing a two hundred and fifty word burst would boil all the water in the cooling jacket, enough to make a gallon of hot soup, tea, or coffee.
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