What to do with an old printer?

By Jalicos on March 30, 2009 8:20:21 PM from

I have a very old inkjet printer that I don't use anymore. The print quality is terrible, cartridges are getting hard to find, and I don't know of anyone who would conceivably want it. My first idea was to just dump it by the curb, but I was wondering if there might be a better, more creative solution.

Does anyone know of an alternative use for an old Canon S400 inkjet printer, or a way to use the parts to do something interesting? The more mad scientist-y the idea, the better.

I also have an old 15" CRT monitor that doesn't work. I don't know why it doesn't work, but if it's just a loose wire somewhere, well, there's got to be something fun I can do with an electron beam.

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Drop them by Goodwill and you can use their value as a tax deduction, if your in the States.

They actually sell alot of computer related materials there. Mostly junk, though.

Take it apart and make some cylons

to CarGuy.

I was going to say Freecycle it http://www.freecycle.org/ but you don't get a tax write off then. Might be careful about the 15" CRT monitor if you donate it to the Goodwill -- my local Goodwill wouldn't take my old computer monitors; they said they were too old, that anything made before 2003 they reject and I forget exactly why, but I put them on Freecycle and they were gone before the sun went down.

InkJet, sounds to me like a perfectly good bomber plane. Paint a bullseye on the brickwall in the backyard & become the next relief pitcher of the Chicago Cubs for your instant of glory.

Anything that falls off might get used to design a GC2 ship model simply by means of an abstract sculpture. Get a spray can of blue flashy sprinkles and shoot what was glued together.

Admire your Artwork as room decoration until you have seen enough to return to the bullseye.

Repeat & rinse.

(PS; In all seriousness, i'd tend to agree with the "charity" road suggested above.)

http://hackedgadgets.com/2008/02/06/ping-pong-ball-inkjet-printer/

for article

I probably still have my oldest one from more than 10 years ago, still works a miracle

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