What shall we do with the drunken inkjet?

[Guest Dark Horse]

Does anyone know of a charity or organisation that recycles printers? I've got an inkjet all-in-one colour printer, scanner and copier that works perfectly but just needs a head clean for the colour head. Rather than mess around with this, I thought I'd just replace it with a new one all-in-one as I need a fax machine now too.

Said printer is barely used, in new condition and with all original packaging so I'm thinking that someone technically minded would be able to clean the head and resell or reuse it, perhaps for a school or charity or similar. Any ideas? Plenty of resources for recycling inkjet cartridges but none for printers, the manufacturers are quite happy to let customers chuck them away and replace them with the latest model that drinks even more ink.

Regards,

Dark Horse

[Guest awarner (MVP)]

Even charity shops tend not to take electrical goods anymore quoting the health and safety and testing etc.

You could try uk.freecycle.org site to give it away?

[Guest Dark Horse]

Even charity shops tend not to take electrical goods anymore quoting the health and safety and testing etc.

You could try uk.freecycle.org site to give it away?

Nice one, will check it out, many thanks :lol:

[Guest Dark Horse]

Had a bit more of a snoop around, some companies (Xerox, HP) will take an old printer as a trade-in against a new model. The Xerox ones in particular are quite generous whereas the HP trade in is only against the more expensive models targetted at the business environment.