What Do You Do When Printers Cost Less Than Ink? 970
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."
Office Space (Score:5, Funny)
Office Space re-enactment (Score:5, Funny)
Take it to a local field with a buddy
Set up a camera
Film yourself bashing it to bits
Upload to internet
Profit
Simple! (Score:5, Funny)
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! ;)
Re:KaBOOM!!! (Score:4, Funny)
The old fashioned way (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Send it to the manufacturer (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Office Space (Score:5, Funny)
Damn it feels good to be a gangsta.
Re:Prevent. (Score:5, Funny)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postage_due [wikipedia.org]
Re:Printers don't come with (much) ink. (Score:5, Funny)
> 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.
Re:not a bargain (Score:3, Funny)
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.
The Ghetto (Score:2, Funny)
Now call your insurance company.
Trebuchet. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:KaBOOM!!! (Score:4, Funny)
Make sure they have been discharged before you mess with destroying monitors via the Office Space route.
Or just use a wooden bat.
Re:Prevent. (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:Prevent. (Score:3, Funny)
Not if you take out your frustration on it first. Say, with a baseball bat, or any other blunt object.
Re:buy compatible cartridges (Score:1, Funny)
Re:buy compatible cartridges (Score:4, Funny)
Re:KaBOOM!!! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Simple! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Printers don't come with (much) ink. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Prevent. (Score:4, Funny)
Kinda reminded me of this [bash.org].
When you're stuck with corporate rubbish, be inventive!
Re:ctrl+p (Score:3, Funny)
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.
Re:buy compatible cartridges (Score:5, Funny)
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 )
Re:buy compatible cartridges (Score:1, Funny)
I love it when ACs argue. It's like watching a bum having a fight with himself.
Re:buy compatible cartridges (Score:4, Funny)
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.
Re:buy compatible cartridges (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:Prevent. (Score:4, Funny)
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".
Re:buy compatible cartridges (Score:3, Funny)
- 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.
Re:buy compatible cartridges (Score:1, Funny)
I use ISO 216 [wikipedia.org] paper you insensitive clod!
Re:Don't buy inkjets period (Score:4, Funny)
What dye sublimation printers with good Linux support would you recommend?