I guess it really depends on how much time you want to spend on it and how much of it that you can actually turn a profit on.
I am a very small time operation. And I do not have much in the way of constant flow of merchandise coming in, nor very much in the way of stuff stored up. In my case. I would break it all the way down to the screws in my spare time. However, I can recycle every single piece off of any printer for a profit. At this time the only things that I can't profit from are CRT Glass ( including the small tubes from projection screen tv's) and Alkaline Batteries. So just about everything gets torn down to its very basic components.
Also, after reading your post again, I would definitely try to re-sell the printer that works and during a set amount of time (approximately 3 months) to sell the working printer, I would keep the non working one, so if the good printer didnt sell, I could process and scrap them both at the same time.
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