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What Do You Do When Printers Cost Less Than Ink?
An anonymous reader writes "A family member recently asked me to pick up more ink for her Epson Photo RX 595. Unfortunately, replacing the black and color ink cartridges costs $81.92 + tax at the local store! That's so bad that I got a replacement printer that's just as good, and spare ink, for less. But now I have a useless piece of e-waste that I can't even give away. What can you do with a printer like that? I hate to just throw it away."
All you need is a bat
Knowledge = Power
P= W/t
t=Money
Money = Work/Knowledge so the less you know the more you make
Take it to a local field with a buddy
Set up a camera
Film yourself bashing it to bits
Upload to internet
Profit
"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it." - K
Just put the old printer in the new printer's box, tape it up, and return it. Now that's what I call recycling your e-waste! ;)
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
Make sure you put it far away, I had a bit of printer stuck in my leg for some time.
I refill my 4-color printer with Blood, Sweat and Tears (4th bodily fluid "redacted" as this is a family site).
Set your phasers on "funky"!
You skipped a few steps: Smash it into tiny pieces with a huge hammer, screaming insanely/swearing/weeping. Mention the manufacturer's name a lot and why you are smashing it. Film this. Box up the shards of printer and mail it to the manufacturer. Film this. Post the video on YouTube. Wait for it to go viral. If the manufacturer replies, post this on YouTube. If it doesn't, rant and post on YouTube. Advertising revenue will pay for a new printer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postage_due
"linux is just DOS with a UNIX like syntax" -- Galactic Dominator (944134)
> The printer that you buy with ink comes with cartridges that are, at most, half full.
I think you'll find that they're half empty.
There's no way that a pigment can cost thousands of dollars per liter.
That's simply not true.
The cyan cartridge is filled with pigments gathered from the beak of the endangered Taiwula bird, only found in altitudes of around 7.000 meters in the Nepalese mountains.
And that "photo grey" cartridge is made with moon dust. Not that moon, but one of Pluto's.
Park your car in your local ghetto area, leave the printer on the top of your car, go buy a coffee, come back to your car, tadaaa! no more printer!
Now call your insurance company.
Now you know what to do with a Trebuchet.
Make sure they have been discharged before you mess with destroying monitors via the Office Space route.
Or just use a wooden bat.
Actually, put the printer manufacturers address as the return address and some arbitrary address as the "To:" address. Put a penny stamp on it and send. It will get returned to sender (the printer manufacturer) for insufficient postage. ;-)
A friend and I used to send messages back and forth when we were kids using this method. Except we wouldn't put any postage on, just stick it in a curbside mailbox. It worked because we were in the same city. I'm guessing if the return address is in another state they'd probably catch on but, then again, this IS the postoffice we're talking about here.
MG
Not if you take out your frustration on it first. Say, with a baseball bat, or any other blunt object.
If I were God, wouldn't I protect my churches from acts of me?
bedder? wtf...
"Here honey, here's a google map of where you're going. Just swing by Kinko's and print out the PDF here on this USB stick ... you know, the Kinko's out by highway 50? No, it's past the Wal-Mart ... No, not that one ... here, I'll put another map on the USB stick to help you find Kinko's."
If libertarians are so opposed to effective government, why don't they all move to Somalia?
No, that's KaBOOL. It returns "false", by the way.
They're actually twice as big as they need to be.
Kinda reminded me of this.
When you're stuck with corporate rubbish, be inventive!
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
I replied to FP because on cursory inspection of the replies, nobody seemed to be pointing out the obvious. Since the "ask slashdot" was (per the norm) somebody begging for the obvious to be pointed out to them, they definitely won't read past the first thread.
The cost of building a trebuchet and enjoyment of launching the older printer over the Potomac River is well worth the cost of buying a new printer every few months.
-- Missing_DC ( District of Columbia )
How amazed would you be to suddenly find that you just forgot what I wrote and you needed to reread my post.... again.
I love it when ACs argue. It's like watching a bum having a fight with himself.
Our good friends the Chinese have devised all sorts of bypasses.
What do you mean, why's it got to be built? It's a bypass. You've got to build bypasses.
I hear you. I built a trebuchet and launched my old LaserJet over the Hudson River in the middle of January this year. Not sure where it eventually landed as there was an Airbus A320 obscuring my line of sight.
Want to improve your Karma? Instead of "Post Anonymously", try the "Post Humously" option.
Let's roll. I just finished disassembling an Epson printer to clean the nozzles after I had its ink refilled by a local businessman specialized in the task. I now have an undying hatred for Epson, and planning on testing the killer machine I'll create from the parts at their HQ.
I think I'll call my creation the "Blood-Jet".
All rites reversed 2010
- Does it take just the normal 8 1/2x11 paper, or does it go all the way up to 11x17?
I don't know. I'm simply happy that it goes to 11.
But if your printer is cheaper than the ink you should invest in a more expensive printer. It'll save you money in the long run, and whatever you do for God's sake stay away from HP. (unless you can score a laser printer from the early '90s those were built like tanks.) It's not worth the grief.
I use ISO 216 paper you insensitive clod!
What dye sublimation printers with good Linux support would you recommend?