I love printers. Love them. Typically you get a nice 8 oz board, along with 2-4 ink cartridges good for 4-8 bucks in store credit. Then I chuck the rest in the shred pile and move on. If you really want to have some fun, you pull the cartridges, and then smash the piss out of them with a hammer to get the good stuff.
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I took some more in yesterday and they (Staples) gave me .01 each for them. I got a whole .10 cents for 10 cart's. Needless to say I fired off a nasty email to them. They had no advertising up at all that they had quit with the .20 credit for them.Originally Posted by BumpRacerX
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I think that's how it shows up on your receipt the day that you drop them off. You may have to wait a few weeks to get the credit via email, which is good for a future purchase. That's how it worked the last time I took some ink carts in, which was a few months ago. But I know it took forever for it to show up in my email. It did finally arrive though. I have heard nothing of them discontinuing the program, but Staples doesn't check with me before doing stuff like that. I'm barely even a customer.
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Yep, they give you a receipt, but the e-mail they send weeks later contains the bar code coupon for $20 for 10. Here they still advertise the program:I think that's how it shows up on your receipt the day that you drop them off. You may have to wait a few weeks to get the credit via email, which is good for a future purchase. That's how it worked the last time I took some ink carts in, which was a few months ago. But I know it took forever for it to show up in my email. It did finally arrive though. I have heard nothing of them discontinuing the program, but Staples doesn't check with me before doing stuff like that. I'm barely even a customer.
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Could we all agree that smaller inkjet printer arent worth breaking down? (besides cables and cartridges.)
Ya it says that on my receipts too but, I eventually get the coupon in the mail or by e-mail. I just found out that they have a premier account where where you can recycle 20 ink cartridges per month but, the only caught is that you have to spend $1000 per year.
here is the number if you are interested 1-800-793-3320 or if you spend a lot at staples.
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Like I said earlyer in this thread I brake down alot of printers, never found a cpu in a printer, I get .32 for the motors, mostly mid grade boards, some have more steel than others. Wish I could find a plastic buyer, I get about 2 pick up truck loads a month.
So, does your scrap yard take electronics? There are a lot of yards here by where I live that take e-waste @ .05/lb. I wasnt sure if most people were breaking printers down because there is no one to sell them to @ .05/lb.
I did a little experiment on a small inkjet printer and found that I only would make about $1.40 more if I broke it down oppose to just recycling it for .05/lb. Like you said in your quote, If there wasnt so much plastic to get rid of, maybe it wouldn't be so bad.
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All printers have some kind of CPU, they would be a small surface mount chip (not like the larger socketed ones you find in a computer).
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Not handy, but for example my HP 4 SI printer has a 25Mhz RISC processor inside.
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