Difference between revisions of "Printers"
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: There is a broom and a dustpan in a drum to the left of the big warehouse. Put little leftover printer bits into a cardboard box. Please don't dump this box into the gaylord! Set it in there gently, open side up! | : There is a broom and a dustpan in a drum to the left of the big warehouse. Put little leftover printer bits into a cardboard box. Please don't dump this box into the gaylord! Set it in there gently, open side up! | ||
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− | : 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 stripped cartridges can go on the toner pallet in boxes. I help Rapid Refill grab Clean Toner, Chipped Toner and any stacked boxes of ink cartridges that we have and load it in their vehicle. It's a good idea to pull their car up to the warehouse doors if it doesn't interfere with other warehouse activity. | + | : 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. |
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+ | : 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== | ==Sorting== | ||
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# All ancient and heavy machines. | # All ancient and heavy machines. | ||
# Anything leaky (it should be contained). | # Anything leaky (it should be contained). | ||
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==Testing== | ==Testing== |
Revision as of 13:19, 6 February 2009
Taking printers apart-- sometimes permanently, sometimes to make them work better-- can be a lot of fun. Welcome to Printerland, aka Printer Island. We're now in the middle of the Warehouse and we've got a new look. Still making lots of changes, and the space is a bit of a mess, but here goes nothing...
Just Printers?Right now we receive a wide variety of things. Receiving takes some of it into Printer Island, and sorts the rest of it according to Printer Triage (we use a different triage to figure out what to test and keep, below). Our incoming pile is in the Warehouse, just next to the door to Evaluation. How To Run Printer IslandThese are your basic responsibilities:
SortingCheck the white board for special requests. All Okidata's should be set to the side and kept. The following should be run through Recycling Prep page to get it ready to be recycled.
The following should be tested (see Testing section below)
The following should be set carefully on the Skip pallet:
TestingLet's reuse as much as we can! This is a more general look at testing things. If something cannot be made to work (with the exception of the Laserjet 4, which we keep under the bench marked: (1)) it gets processed by someone authorized according to Recycling Pre 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: RecyclingRecyclable 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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