On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Greg Keogh <[email protected]> wrote: > Folks, I have an Epson AL-C900 Colour Laser printer here that ran out of all > 3 colour toners at the same time. To refill it would cost twice the price of > a new replacement printer of similar power. So now this otherwise completely > working 30kg behemoth the size of a large esky is sitting wrapped in plastic > in my bedroom. > > How can I get rid of it? (in an environmentally friendly way)
Probably the best way is to turn it into some sort of abstract art, then sell it to some art museum under an assumed name, maybe something like "Grekaqui ver Presiquino" (wear a beret) and then use the money to fund some sort of environmental cause. Everyone wins. > <rant> > > Our $850 replacement printer the Lexmark C534dn just ran out of blank toner > in the “starter cartridge” (that’s how it was labelled, what a giveaway!!). > The replacement “high yield” black cartridge cost $335 to get on urgent > short notice from the nearest shop. I look forward to when the 3 colours run > out, as the estimated total replacement cost will be about $900-$1000, more > than the cost of the new printer. It’s like buying a new car with a half > full tank of petrol, then finding it’s cheaper to buy a new car than fill > the tank. Who invented this stupid system? Why does it continue? Aside form > the drain on our wallets, think of the waste of materials and the burden of > the resulting rubbish on the environment. > </rant> Yeah, it's stupid, but there are two important words from the street. One is, you may get less ink in the new printer compared to buying off the shelf (I read this somewhere, I haven't confirmed it). The other is; perhaps printing is simply not a sustainable process. To that end, perhaps we, at large, should give up on it. Or find another way to generate ink. That could be fun to research. Maybe there is interesting things happening there already. Maybe not. > Greg -- silky http://www.programmingbranch.com/
