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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"!
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.
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
"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?
They're actually twice as big as they need to be.
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 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.
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