Scrapped My First Today - A Printer

there are some really flat white ribbon cables with bright silver colored ends that are totally flat (no pins). Do they go in with the regular ribbon cable from the computer or are they something else?

Depends on your yard how they classify it, we can't tell you what category it'll be. Most of the printers have 2 or 3 motors. those go in your motor bucket.
I clip off the "silver" ends and have been saving them but the silver coating is very thin and probably a very low recovery rate, gonna take a lot of ends to make a little.



Harsas,

Ah yes, but the questions go unanswered.

These questions have been answered many times in the past threads, you just have to go back and do some reading.