Working printers - now what do I do with them?

[rad]

So we have moved over to a managed printing system installing Ricoh printers and photocopiers replacing the networked and stand alone printers.

 

The conundrum, what do you do with the old working printers? We have a mix of mono, mono nw & colour nw printers either Brother of HP.

 

Currently they are stacking up in our store room, I will taking the rest out in the holidays but what do with them?

What did you also do with the remaining toners?

 

Edit - secondary school, possibly 100 printers

[crwardell]

Sell them or get a recycling company to collect them

[fiza]

@rad what have you got?

[SpuffMonkey]

Pile them up in a cupboard somewhere, ready for when they change their minds and move back to having printers everywhere! (True story!)

[newpersn]

As above.

 

Post in the forsale section to see if anyone here could buy them.

[Baloo]

Make a video with all money saved.

 

[nicholab]

Keep a few for replacement for any stand alones. Give to any schools locally or charity.

[Meldrew]

Pile them up in a cupboard somewhere, ready for when they change their minds and move back to having printers everywhere! (True story!)

 

Get rid of them quick before this happens.

[HTCPCP]

Get rid of them quick before this happens.

 

What Meldrew said! Otherwise you will have teacher X wanting one for their classroom because it's too far to walk 20 metres to get a print out, then teacher Y will say, I want one in my office because I print out thousands of pictures of cats all day long, then teacher Z will pipe up saying, teacher X and Y have one, I want one too, you are ruining my life and go running to the LT crying saying you are being mean, and making their job 500000000000000 times harder. the LT will then cave and make you give them one!

 

In reality, the only places you may want individial printers that I had come across when we did that a couple of years ago was:

Exams - means they can have stuff printing and still be able to work

DSP - Confidential print outs, during meetings etc

Canteen - Chances are you don't have a printer that near it, and they need to be able to print stuff off quickly

SENCO - if they have their own office, its better for them to have a local printer too

 

The only other one that may be arguable, would be finance, if they still print loads of cheques. Apart from that, no one else, including the LT got one, no matter how hard they pestered. Make sure LT members know why certain places are getting local printers too.

[rad]

We have Printers and photocopiers under this new contract.

 

I have removed about 65 already I still have more to go, I have been told to get a company to buy them. If you know of a company in or around London, please send me some details.

[elsiegee40]

I think Millgate will buy back. Worth a try

[Norphy]

Re-enact that scene from Office Space? Come on, you know you want to.

 

(I'd link it here but there is rather a load of bad language in it)

[rad]

@Millgate can you advise if this is a service you offer?

[Fazza]

Store them somewhere. If you renew your Ricoh contract when it's up for renewall, then sell them, if you dont renew you've saved loads of money as you already have a load of printers.