Holy Snit!
Dec. 5th, 2002 11:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mbarrick
It pays to be the crazy old man living with cats in the burnt out building.Earlier this evening I was down in the basement installing a light in my storage room and noticed a laser printer in the salvage pile. I just hooked it up and lo! It works. It's a couple years obsolete and a tad sooty, but, shit, it's a free laser printer! r0x0r!
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Yes, there is a reason it was thrown away.
Date: 2002-12-06 11:28 am (UTC)It's an HP LaserJetIIIp. Cartridges are $75. The closest equivalent on the market right now is a low-end Brother that runs about $300 and takes $90 cartriges. If it was genunine crap I would have left in the salvage pile (along side the two colour inkjet printers that are there).
As they work through the damaged apartments one-by-one, salvagable items are being piled in the basement. Most of it is smokey, sooty, smelly crap but some of it is useful. There was a microwave in there a while back that is gone now.
Re: Yes, there is a reason it was thrown away.
Date: 2002-12-06 12:36 pm (UTC)The closest thing (from a durability and longevity standpoint)
would cost about $700+ now. Also the fact that a 92275A cartrige for $90 gives you about 3-4000 prints (drum included) means your costs of running that thing are almost nothing.
Good for you.
That Printer probably initially sold for about $1800 (in 1993)