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Revision as of 13:52, 26 March 2011
Taking printers apart-- sometimes permanently, sometimes to make them work better-- can be a lot of fun. Welcome to Printerland. We're located just inside the Warehouse, to the left of the door near System Evaluation.
Just Printers?Printerland is responsible for printers, multi-function printers, faxes, and scanners. Receiving does not accept copiers, and they check machines that look like copiers to make sure they have means for connecting to a computer or network. If we inadvertently receive a copier, we recycle it without disassembly. How To Run PrinterlandThese are your basic responsibilities:
We do a commodity exchange on Thursdays. Mike or Jim from Rapid Refill will come by and donate printers, give us stripped cartridges in large boxes, and take ink and toner from us. The donated printers go to Receiving. The stripped cartridges can go on the toner pallet in cardboard boxes on the pallet between the plastic and scrap pallets. I help Rapid Refill grab Clean Toner, Chipped Toner and any stacked boxes of ink cartridges that we have under the evaluation bench and load it in their vehicle. I also check Receiving to see if they have any extra boxes of cartridges we can give them. It's a good idea to pull their car up to the warehouse doors if it doesn't interfere with other warehouse activity. Rapid Refill will also give us circuit board material that they remove from their failed cartridges. I keep a cardboard box of them on the top shelf to the left of the hazardous box. Today is also the day (it doesn't happen every Thursday) that is convenient to ship the non-chipped cartridge pallet, i.e. the one between plastic and scrap, to Far West Fibers. When that pallet is stacked high enough it needs to be shrink wrapped and loaded into the truck. Sorting
TestingHere's some more specific information on how to use the computers and how to deal with specific models: Printer Testing Howto The object of the game is to get a printer to print out one of these test pages. If we can do that and it looks good, we stick that test page on the cleaned-up printer and write "Tested Ok" on the page. If we used in-house ink (ask your superviser as it's hidden), we, mark the test page accordingly. Don't forget to include a power cord, and then ask a supervisor to check it off before shipping it off to the Store or the Grant Shelves! Here is a more specific look at what to do with each kind of machine:
We also test network cards recovered from machines: Recyclingthis section under construction March 2011 -Darryl ------------ Recyclable printers and related gizmos are in the "Recyclables" gaylords in Printer Island, to be processed according to what's on the Whiteboard (3).
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