Printers Sometimes @#@%*&#@!!

**wolverine300** · 07-07-2013, 06:32 PM

Originally Posted by auminer

I call this 'my two cents', but it's probably worth about what you paid for it.

No worries, its all profit. I got it for free.

**unknownk** · 07-07-2013, 07:25 PM

Originally Posted by Bear

The really large printers and copiers, I mean like similar to washing machine size, in the future I'll charge for. If you'll do some googlin you'll see it isn't gonna be real cheap either ; )

I have an old full size copier in my basement, no way in hell I am ever moving it out of there because of the weight. Easier going down then up. Anyway most people would be willing to pay to get rid of them.

**Bear** · 07-07-2013, 07:45 PM

Originally Posted by unknownk

I have an old full size copier in my basement, no way in hell I am ever moving it out of there because of the weight. Easier going down then up. Anyway most people would be willing to pay to get rid of them.

each flight of steps is extra ; ) In your case, or if it was me, I'd highly dismantle that thing before attempting the steps

**unknownk** · 07-07-2013, 08:42 PM

Originally Posted by Bear

each flight of steps is extra ; ) In your case, or if it was me, I'd highly dismantle that thing before attempting the steps

You mean put a sledgehammer to it (after taking out the toner)? Sure if it ever quit working (but those old copiers will outlive me). I got it because it does 11x17" which is hard to find even on new cheap home office printer/scanner/copiers, most just do up to legal.

**Bear** · 07-07-2013, 08:47 PM

haha, it just might outlive the sledge hammer too ; )

**copycat** · 07-08-2013, 10:49 AM

I broke down one of those tall large printers. Was alot of work. Make sure you take the toner out before moving or you could have a mess. A good amount of steel, motors. Just too many screws.

**Enoch43** · 07-08-2013, 02:38 PM

My plan on those these days is remove the green boards, remove the toner (and hopefully a few hundred sheets of good paper

), and then remove some of the side panels to expose the metal frame. Proceed to sell as shred. My yard doesn't really like them whole, so I try to take of a nominal amount plastic before bringing them in.
;

**eesakiwi** · 07-11-2013, 11:59 PM

Those motors, part #3 are worth money as they are stepper motors.

They will work a home made lathe or milling machine, they will also push a 3D printer, which a lot of people are now making.

**CFoote** · 07-12-2013, 03:52 PM

I have just sent two full gaylords of ink cartridges and toner carts to a guy that buys ink and toner carts. I will give yall an update and will let you know if there is any money to be made on the deal when everything settles out.

**auminer** · 07-12-2013, 05:54 PM

Originally Posted by CFoote

I have just sent two full gaylords of ink cartridges and toner carts to a guy that buys ink and toner carts. I will give yall an update and will let you know if there is any money to be made on the deal when everything settles out.

Did he require any specific model #s of inks, ie: HP45 or was it just "send all you have"?

**CFoote** · 07-12-2013, 08:33 PM

Well, I'm gonna let him sort it out for me and tell me which ones pay and which ones do not

**eesakiwi** · 07-14-2013, 11:42 PM

Just remember that the 'light bar' on a scanner has about ~160 gold wires on it

**ScrapperOfEverything** · 07-21-2013, 06:46 AM

Ah,printers bashed one with a friend for fun once.Ended up with a bunch of plastic shrapnel didn't even get the motor out of it.

**msearl3244** · 07-21-2013, 07:40 AM

We do a lot of printers because they are part of the deal for us. We deal with a lot of schools, colleges and businesses.

We usually let them stack up for a while. They do stack nice on a pallet if you have room. When we get 3 or 4 pallets of them then we plow through them. For us anyway, time is money. We have to look at everything and figure out in our head if it is worth the money to harvest it, or let it pass and chuck it in shred.

For printers our preferred method of taking them apart is gravity de-manufacturing. We have a corner of our shop just for this. You wear old clothes and gloves and just smash the hell out of them into the concrete floor. I know not everyone has the room for this, but thankfully we do. we pull whatever boards, motors and wire we can get at and keep it moving. The excess plastic go in plastic and the rest goes in shred. We get $160.00 a ton for shred with up to 30% material other than steel. That is an easy mark to make in cleaning up a printer. When you smash them the screws usually stay in the metal leaving us with clean plastic to put in plastic.

There are certainly more profitable ways to scrap a printer. And definitely classier ways. This is just what works for us. There just is not enough money in materials to spend a lot of time on them.

There of course is a certain satisfaction that comes with smashing anything into a concrete floor...lol

Scanners are even worse than printers when it comes to being worthless. Half the time you can't even make the 30% threshold for throwing in shred.

We make our money off of other stuff we scrap and resale items.

**Enoch43** · 07-22-2013, 01:25 PM

I loathe most consumer grade printers. Lots of plastic, mot much board, and inevitably you have a leaky one that you didn't know was leaky until you get a hand covered in magenta and black.

Business grade, I don't mind. Better board, sometimes RAM, sometimes HDD, and more weight. I grab the easy stuff, take a few of the sides off to expose the metal chassis, and toss it into shred.

Occasionally I get some really sweet ones that I keep for my own use. Last week, I replaced the HP LaserJet I had been using for a few years with a sweet Xerox Phaser 8500. It works great, and was FULL of the solid ink cubes....that is a couple hundred bucks in consumables right there. I have another that has kind of crummy print quality that I am squirreling away for parts.

I can't believe I get some of the stuff I do. This year the same company I got the Phasers from have also given me nearly 100 Blackberry's of various model, and around 75 Core Duo notebooks. Yeah boyyyyyyyy!

**Bear** · 07-22-2013, 01:40 PM

Originally Posted by eesakiwi

Just remember that the 'light bar' on a scanner has about ~160 gold wires on it

Huh??? : D

**ryanw** · 07-22-2013, 04:40 PM

Bear -

**Bear** · 07-22-2013, 05:42 PM

I figured the "light bar" was like, inside the bulb

**msearl3244** · 07-22-2013, 07:14 PM

Those big printers are easier for me. You can generally get at the boards, RAM and hard drive pretty easy. Then I just chuck the rest right into my shred.

**Curbside shopper** · 07-22-2013, 07:25 PM

Picked up 2 old, huge Ricoh sublijets.

Big ink tanks, bunch of wire, a few boards, nice selection of stepper motors, and I grabbed the jet assembly wrong and dyed myself multiple colors on the first one.

It washed off really well though, better than most that I've dyed my hands multiple colors with and worn for a few days.

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