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Oct 17, 2010 3:14 PM in response to Claudesgirlby varjak paw,To the best of my knowledge, those printers contain no hazardous waste, so they could (depending on your local regulations - check with your city government) be put in the trash. That said, though, it's best to avoid putting anything in a landfill if it can be avoided, so you might check around and see if any used computer store in your area could use them for parts. Check also with any recycling services in your area to see if they'll take them to reclaim any of the materials. There are also national recycling programs, such as this one:
http://www.recycleapc.com/apple/index.asp
There is a charge with such programs, but dumping stuff in a landfill also has a cost; it's just hidden in the various taxes and in the unallocated costs we all incur for resource waste and environmental degradation.
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Oct 17, 2010 3:14 PM in response to varjak pawby Claudesgirl,Thanks Dave from A Kingdom far far away. (watch out for the black cape guys). Yes there is a local place that will take this for a fee. This thing is full of real metal parts (weighs a ton), and with the price of heavy metals... someone who knows what they're doing could probably melt part of it down and sell it. Our county also has special days at their recycling place when you can take your computers there for free -- I'll do that. -
Oct 17, 2010 3:14 PM in response to Claudesgirlby Limnos,If there's a Craiglist city near you there might be somebody interested in having them for free. Oddly enough there are still people out there running old printers like that since they never actually felt they needed to upgrade! -
Oct 17, 2010 3:14 PM in response to Limnosby Grant Bennet-Alder,Those printers are pretty indestructible.
I print my household checks using Quicken with an ImageWriter II. I can keep the checks loaded all the time and just make the printer not ready to avoid dumping kids game pictures on the checks.
Mine has a LocalTalk option card and uses a farallon AppleTalk-over-Ethernet to Appletalk/LocalTalk converter. About the only change I had to make was picking a font that was a little bolder than plain Helvetica or New York. And ordering the pinfeed checks, of course.
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Oct 17, 2010 3:14 PM in response to Claudesgirlby Texas Mac Man,Another option to give them away, is the Rochester Freecyclee @ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RochesterNY_Freecycle/
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Oct 17, 2010 3:15 PM in response to Texas Mac Manby Claudesgirl,OK Thanks. I will try freecycle, etc. the local MUG.