Back in 2000-2001 I "inherited" an even then outdated Lexmark Optra R printer and duplexer with a ~500 page count during a printer replacement rollout at work, along with a NIB "High Yield" cartridge. I used that printer for 14 years for all of my needs, plus 2 kids all through their school years. My son had a propensity to print entire manuals for his projects. I eventually had to retire it around 2014 because the plastic around the fuser became brittle, leaving it unrepairable. It was an absolute beast. That printer sold me on a laser printer vs inkjet for home use. It cost me $0 over 14 years.
Company I used to work for had a "golden dumpster" that paid off quite a few times. At my current company, we used to be able to browse the Haz-Mat lockup for useful gear being disposed of, and we could get a property pass to take it home. Unfortunately, they stopped that about a decade ago :(
Eventually the execs catch on and say, "You Can't Take That! I Don't Understand What it is or How it Works, but it Must Have Some Value! STOP THIS!!" That is when it ends. They lock it up and send it their scrap guys. "Make sure it gets destroyed! We're watching you." Sucks. 😢
Dave, you and I as well as many others here, are so like you. People throw away so much stuff that is salvageable because there is nothing wrong with it/outdated, needs very little to fix it, or there are many parts that can be salvaged to fix/make/invent other devices. We GRAB it. It is not stealing. One mans trash.....
On most of these printers there is some semi secret method of resetting the toner, because in practice you can often print for quite some time after the printer tells you the toner is empty.
A good printer and unused toner cartridges? For me, it looks that the company did end their business. Maybe it was a very small company whose service is not needed anymore.
This in theory should support universal PCL6 colour printing... So far, I found it's Canon printers that don't support PCL5/6 though the LP17 supports A4 PCL5 in monochrome. If you get that smudge repeating down the page, check the fuser (Most business printers have the fuser clip in or just requires 4x screws to remove as a module, HPs typically have the fuser on a clip Samsung have them screwed in by just 4x screws). Often if the user used thick (card) stock, the fuser wears down much faster, sometimes the ribbon-belt fusers gets cuts in them making them unservicable (Requiring a new fuser, this in 99% of printers is a user-serviceable consumable part), or the rubber delaminates from the foil... The rubber-coated tube ones are more robust. I fix mainly HP Samsung and Canon printers at work in the business-oriented independent repair industry.
I was going to add the same thing. If you get that kind of smudge, it's generally the fuser. When I worked in govt, we'd keep a fuser on hand for the common printers we had (back in the HP II, HP III , HP IVsi days), and after swapping one out, send it out for re-man. It was a pretty quick swap, and about $100 at the time to get it rebuilt
I am absolutely amazed how people don't repair stuff in other countries. Here we only stop the repair process if you reach a dead end like can't find the part or it's too expensive. For a stuck solenoid, they'd never end up in the bin. Except the horrible Konica Minolta Bizhub 250/282 photocopiers that keep locking up and messing up the developer, but the rest... nah, definitely a repair case.
We have a couple of those exact same ones at work. One just stopped detecting the top hatch and thinks it is open all the time.. time to bring her home and see if I can repair the detection switch or something.
Well 10k pages is nothing when it comes to these office printers. I got a used HP 4050 mono printer, with 200k printed pages and after changing the paper feed roller it works just like new.
Yep, I deal with them on pharmacies and offices, and have some running with 400k prints. Some of them work better the busier they are, slow offices usually get smudges or lines from lack of use..
Dave needs to start a newspaper or periodical. He has the printers. When one goes out just check the dumpster room. At the bottom of each print it could tell you what printer printed it.
Sunday bike ride side of road seen this Pasasonic tall speaker surround system with remote had to pass to big to carry the main box be handy with the remote .
And this reminded me that I need to order a new drum kit for my laser printer. The drum isn't worn out from use, it's just old. I moved into this place in 2001, and I already had the printer then, and I'm only on the first replacement toner cartridge, and it's giving me smudges on both sides of both ends of the pages.
You'd have to think that someone in that business complex watches EEV blog, and enjoys dumping crap in that room, just to see it make the grade for an episode.
With supply problems, _bubblegum tap shoes_ and price gouging) I can understand while the dumpster finds have dried up. Everyone I know is holding onto old phones, computers, etc. much longer too.
I got a HP colour laserjet printer off the street during a council "kerbside collection" a decade ago. However there were no refills included in the deal and now I am feeling rather short-changed! The black toner cartridge has just run out (sob, sob).
Amazing what people throw away. I've had a few scores like this over the years...Be funny if the google cloud was used and they didn't remove the stored credentials...
@@EEVblog2 Lease they might not have put the sticker on, just a record of serial number. Saves printing a sticker, and easy to swap them out if needed just with a phone app. Plus as a sneaky thing no sticker they go there, it is gone, the company bills for the replacement cost.
I've got an OKI MC363 and have had various other OKI printers over the years. They're way more reliable and durable than normal laser printers. The print quality is also A1.
They were going throw out a color laser printer in my office because they were switching over to central printing. It took several years to use up the toner and I had a personal printer for a while lol
Would an LED printer that uses toner be suitable for use with the "toner transfer" process used to etch PCBs at home, just like LaserJet-type printers are?
If I had the power to open a wormhole to any point on the planet it would probably be to Dave's dumpster .. such a shame that Australia doesn't really exist (which would also explain the insanely great dumpster finds) .. just joking Dave .. love your videos always!
@@jeronimomurruni - make sure to not teleport too far, or you end up in Antarctica which is a secret area that NASA will not allow any humans to visit. If you teleport to there, you will be killed and/or never return.
Can you print out your " winner,winner, chicken dinner" from that oki printer, and show us here on your channel, so we can see the Oki quality ? 🐓 What’s good for the Goose, is good for the Gander...
I'm not quite sure why, but I haven't seen many Oki printers here in Romania. Maybe they're very expensive compared to other brands? And I worked in a printer/photocopier repair shop for a while, too. You see Samsung, Canon, Xerox, Minolta, Kyocera etc. all over the place, but never an Oki.
They used to make those printers and the ink in Glasgow Scotland until the factory closed a few years ago, I'm almost certain it's made in the "far East" now
Was that printer designed for the Australian market? I noticed the demo page said color printer (no u) but I would expect a printer down under to be colour (with u).
Firmware would be international English, almost certainly the same as US models. Power supply, power cord and AU plug would need AU compliance, the rest of the printer would use EN/ISO compliance for safety and EMC.
Printer and brand new toner carts? Kinda looks like they had to leave the building quickly and just couldn't be bothered to transport it or sell them off.
So much wasted in OZ! What score! My mate does commercial renovations and the good stuff that gets thrown away is disgraceful. Give it to charities or have an auction. Millions of dollars we pay for in the end!
Charities in Australia won't take almost anything. They definitely will not accept electrical or electronic products. It's certainly not commercially viable to sell old office fitout stuff at auction, and furthermore any $$ that was earned (after transport and auction fees) would be taxable at full business rates. The reason it gets discarded is because that's the cheapest way of disposing of it, and money talks.
@@johncoops6897 I'm not taking old stuff a lot of it hasn't been used. It has been there for display purposes only until it gets refitted for the new occupiers! If you don't know what you are talking about time to STFU.
Disposal of e-waste is expensive in Australia. Anyway, nobody here would put a perfectly good printer into e-waste and have it scrapped... we put working objects where others can find them and repurpose them.
Is it me or some people in your office building don't give a sh** about how they throw away their trash? Do they even think about the people who work removing their pile of garbage? They clearly don't care. Sad.
I'd take the reduction of the dumpster dive videos as a good thing. People throwing away e-waste like that... ugh. That printer is probably worth more than my car, to say nothing of the bonus toner.
They aren't "throwing it away", so why is it "ugh" ?? Anything placed out like that is simply being given away. This is exceptionally common here in Australia... if we don't want something that still works we just place it somewhere obvious and somebody else will take it. I score an absolutely incredible amount of electronics and homewares in this exact same way.
@@johncoops6897 Really glad to hear that, and count yourself lucky. Here in the 'States, that printer would have gone _in_ the dumpster, ensuring damage beyond repair. Even if the unit is intact like Dave found, it's actually illegal in most cases to retrieve it. (If you're caught, it's treated like trespassing & petty theft. Or so I hear. 😇) So, apologies for the initial lack of clarity, but there it is.
@@McTroyd - the only thing we can (each) do is to try and retrieve and recycle/repurpose whatever we can. Also take time to share amongst friends the concept of gifting rather than dumping.
They were, up until a few months ago, the city water supplier in Boise, Idaho. Water rates went way up after they took over years ago, and I am sure the new company will continue the trend. Dislike these mega international conglomerates that are slowly taking over the world.
My job gives me the opportunity old laptops and old work cellphones when they upgrade them I would check the phone boxes they might of put the old cellphones in them
Back in 2000-2001 I "inherited" an even then outdated Lexmark Optra R printer and duplexer with a ~500 page count during a printer replacement rollout at work, along with a NIB "High Yield" cartridge. I used that printer for 14 years for all of my needs, plus 2 kids all through their school years. My son had a propensity to print entire manuals for his projects. I eventually had to retire it around 2014 because the plastic around the fuser became brittle, leaving it unrepairable. It was an absolute beast.
That printer sold me on a laser printer vs inkjet for home use. It cost me $0 over 14 years.
I think it initially refused to print because you put it into Offline mode - and it was telling you that on the status display!
I wholeheartedly agree with your explanation that's precisely what was occurring.
That had me screaming at the screen :)
Well, the orange light was on indicating an error. When he changed the toner cartridge that light went out.
That makes no sense at all. If that w the case it shouldn't have let me print at all. It was that toner was low and it simply refused to print.
@@EEVblog2 Online mode was reset when you closed the printer door. Try it again by turning it offline and doing a demo print, bet it wont work.
Oki printers have been well regarded for a very long time
Whenever I see one of Dave's dumpster dives, I just want to cry.
At the end. A Perfect Print. I can see the vibrant color from here!
I am so jealous, I have to pay from my pocket for such stuff.
With all new cartridges, that is a helluva score for a home use machine. Will last for ages. Great score!!!
looks like Oki printers seem to be easier to service on? And change toners etc.
Seems nice.
Company I used to work for had a "golden dumpster" that paid off quite a few times. At my current company, we used to be able to browse the Haz-Mat lockup for useful gear being disposed of, and we could get a property pass to take it home. Unfortunately, they stopped that about a decade ago :(
Eventually the execs catch on and say, "You Can't Take That! I Don't Understand What it is or How it Works, but it Must Have Some Value! STOP THIS!!" That is when it ends. They lock it up and send it their scrap guys. "Make sure it gets destroyed! We're watching you." Sucks. 😢
I hate it when I pick up stuff from the curb thinking of scavenging parts and the damn thing works just fine!!!
Dave, you and I as well as many others here, are so like you. People throw away so much stuff that is salvageable because there is nothing wrong with it/outdated, needs very little to fix it, or there are many parts that can be salvaged to fix/make/invent other devices. We GRAB it. It is not stealing. One mans trash.....
Finally a good episode we need more parts like this
Always like the free dumpster stuff!!!
On most of these printers there is some semi secret method of resetting the toner, because in practice you can often print for quite some time after the printer tells you the toner is empty.
A good printer and unused toner cartridges? For me, it looks that the company did end their business. Maybe it was a very small company whose service is not needed anymore.
In this case I know who owned it, and yes they are moving out and selling the unit.
This in theory should support universal PCL6 colour printing...
So far, I found it's Canon printers that don't support PCL5/6 though the LP17 supports A4 PCL5 in monochrome.
If you get that smudge repeating down the page, check the fuser (Most business printers have the fuser clip in or just requires 4x screws to remove as a module, HPs typically have the fuser on a clip Samsung have them screwed in by just 4x screws).
Often if the user used thick (card) stock, the fuser wears down much faster, sometimes the ribbon-belt fusers gets cuts in them making them unservicable (Requiring a new fuser, this in 99% of printers is a user-serviceable consumable part), or the rubber delaminates from the foil... The rubber-coated tube ones are more robust.
I fix mainly HP Samsung and Canon printers at work in the business-oriented independent repair industry.
I was going to add the same thing. If you get that kind of smudge, it's generally the fuser. When I worked in govt, we'd keep a fuser on hand for the common printers we had (back in the HP II, HP III , HP IVsi days), and after swapping one out, send it out for re-man. It was a pretty quick swap, and about $100 at the time to get it rebuilt
I have 2 laser printers, both found in the recycle bin. The problem with both was a stuck solenoid. They still work perfectly.
I am absolutely amazed how people don't repair stuff in other countries. Here we only stop the repair process if you reach a dead end like can't find the part or it's too expensive. For a stuck solenoid, they'd never end up in the bin. Except the horrible Konica Minolta Bizhub 250/282 photocopiers that keep locking up and messing up the developer, but the rest... nah, definitely a repair case.
We have a couple of those exact same ones at work. One just stopped detecting the top hatch and thinks it is open all the time.. time to bring her home and see if I can repair the detection switch or something.
Well 10k pages is nothing when it comes to these office printers. I got a used HP 4050 mono printer, with 200k printed pages and after changing the paper feed roller it works just like new.
Yep, I deal with them on pharmacies and offices, and have some running with 400k prints. Some of them work better the busier they are, slow offices usually get smudges or lines from lack of use..
Dave needs to start a newspaper or periodical. He has the printers. When one goes out just check the dumpster room. At the bottom of each print it could tell you what printer printed it.
Congratulations with new dumpster printer! Very cool find, especially, because they put new cartridges with it.. 😂👍
Awesome score. A friend has access to his business park dumpster room. I wonder what delights are within.... lol
Sunday bike ride side of road seen this Pasasonic tall speaker surround system with remote had to pass to big to carry
the main box be handy with the remote .
You should look to see if it has a hard drive. And what's on it...
And this reminded me that I need to order a new drum kit for my laser printer. The drum isn't worn out from use, it's just old. I moved into this place in 2001, and I already had the printer then, and I'm only on the first replacement toner cartridge, and it's giving me smudges on both sides of both ends of the pages.
That dumpster room has better things than my local department store…
The Dumpster, the gift that keeps on giving.
You'd have to think that someone in that business complex watches EEV blog, and enjoys dumping crap in that room, just to see it make the grade for an episode.
Nice score! Pretty sure the reason it wouldn't print to start with was because you put it in offline mode at 2:49!
Looks like back to the plantation is in full swing, at least that means some free goodies.
With supply problems, _bubblegum tap shoes_ and price gouging) I can understand while the dumpster finds have dried up. Everyone I know is holding onto old phones, computers, etc. much longer too.
many colour printers add some cyan to black prints just to use up more ink/toner so you need to buy the colour packs.
Do color laser printers still print a hidden tracking code on all of the printed pages?
Imagine the surprise of that employee when he comes back to the dumpster to retrieve the stuff he put there to pick up after work.😉
Goodness, last time I saw OKI was during a NT 4.0 install.
Wondering why anyone would dump that thing. Nice find.
I got a HP colour laserjet printer off the street during a council "kerbside collection" a decade ago. However there were no refills included in the deal and now I am feeling rather short-changed! The black toner cartridge has just run out (sob, sob).
Check the memory, Trump might have used that printer to copy Confidential & Top Secret Papers! (sarcasm)
Amazing what people throw away. I've had a few scores like this over the years...Be funny if the google cloud was used and they didn't remove the stored credentials...
Dave comes the next day with a whole stack of prints from the previous owner's cloud account.
That's a smashing deal
Going to say this was a leased one, and at end of lease they got a new one, and were told they can keep the old one.
There is a service sticker on the side, but that could be just from the dealer.
@@EEVblog2 Lease they might not have put the sticker on, just a record of serial number. Saves printing a sticker, and easy to swap them out if needed just with a phone app. Plus as a sneaky thing no sticker they go there, it is gone, the company bills for the replacement cost.
Oki printers usually do continuous banner printing
Yes, read that in the brochure, up to 1.6m long!
I've got an OKI MC363 and have had various other OKI printers over the years. They're way more reliable and durable than normal laser printers. The print quality is also A1.
@GsaUce Rug they also do A3 printers
The sound it makes while printing is very much the same as Brother printers. Funny.
They were going throw out a color laser printer in my office because they were switching over to central printing. It took several years to use up the toner and I had a personal printer for a while lol
Nice find!
Seems like the black was replased, an no other. The marking on the black and the new cyan was bigger snd had a letter
Would an LED printer that uses toner be suitable for use with the "toner transfer" process used to etch PCBs at home, just like LaserJet-type printers are?
Short answer: Yes.
If I had the power to open a wormhole to any point on the planet it would probably be to Dave's dumpster .. such a shame that Australia doesn't really exist (which would also explain the insanely great dumpster finds) .. just joking Dave .. love your videos always!
make sure you put you portal upside down so you teleport right side up! rookie mistake not to.
@@jeronimomurruni - make sure to not teleport too far, or you end up in Antarctica which is a secret area that NASA will not allow any humans to visit. If you teleport to there, you will be killed and/or never return.
Shut the front door, Dave!
Send us all full color wiring diagrams. Of Whatever! No. No.no. The Postage would be a Gutsa. (Did I do that right, Dave?) 😄
I have been to the OKI HQ in fabulous Toranomon, Tokyo.
Very nice score, I could use one of those
lol the boxes.. nice score..even if just for parts..
looked like there was some apple boxes in the dumpster too
very nice experience 👌
You can't lose if they supply you with the ink to go with it. Winner, winner. Chicken dinner.
Can you print out your " winner,winner, chicken dinner" from that oki printer, and show us here on your channel, so we can see the Oki quality ? 🐓
What’s good for the Goose, is good for the Gander...
I'm not quite sure why, but I haven't seen many Oki printers here in Romania. Maybe they're very expensive compared to other brands? And I worked in a printer/photocopier repair shop for a while, too. You see Samsung, Canon, Xerox, Minolta, Kyocera etc. all over the place, but never an Oki.
Okis are sometimes branded as other manufacturers. I owned some Dell printers that I am sure were made by Oki.
They used to make those printers and the ink in Glasgow Scotland until the factory closed a few years ago, I'm almost certain it's made in the "far East" now
Okidata is a Japanese company, so that should come as no surprise.
Almost a new printer with the low page count.
winner winner chicken dinner 🍗
Nice score!
Dumpster diving is just a youtubers privilege
Very lucky Dave!
we have this exact one at work lol
Was that printer designed for the Australian market? I noticed the demo page said color printer (no u) but I would expect a printer down under to be colour (with u).
Firmware would be international English, almost certainly the same as US models. Power supply, power cord and AU plug would need AU compliance, the rest of the printer would use EN/ISO compliance for safety and EMC.
I made so much money off dumpster diving when I find 8k in toner. ;-)
What a score!
Wish I'd found one of those instead of buying a HP colour laser. I dumped that when the darn thing wouldn't boot even after many factory resets.
Nice haul!
That OKi printer is OK :)
Printer and brand new toner carts? Kinda looks like they had to leave the building quickly and just couldn't be bothered to transport it or sell them off.
I know the company is selling thier unit and moving out.
So much wasted in OZ! What score! My mate does commercial renovations and the good stuff that gets thrown away is disgraceful. Give it to charities or have an auction. Millions of dollars we pay for in the end!
A lot of companies insist on stuff being destroyed for data protection and because you don't lose the liability if its faulty and say hurts someone.
@@Spookieham Like new desks, chairs, filing cabinets a very long list of non-digital gear! Just wasted.
Charities in Australia won't take almost anything. They definitely will not accept electrical or electronic products.
It's certainly not commercially viable to sell old office fitout stuff at auction, and furthermore any $$ that was earned (after transport and auction fees) would be taxable at full business rates. The reason it gets discarded is because that's the cheapest way of disposing of it, and money talks.
@@johncoops6897 I'm not taking old stuff a lot of it hasn't been used. It has been there for display purposes only until it gets refitted for the new occupiers! If you don't know what you are talking about time to STFU.
Do they not have e-waste services in your area...? (Bonus for you though)
Council has then a few times a year.
Disposal of e-waste is expensive in Australia. Anyway, nobody here would put a perfectly good printer into e-waste and have it scrapped... we put working objects where others can find them and repurpose them.
Looks like there something in the adf.
I would hate to be the Janitor in that place.
Cardboard bailer in the corner. Not a single box broken down :(
You think you won the dumpster dive until you look up the price of replacement toner.
Good score
Is it me or some people in your office building don't give a sh** about how they throw away their trash? Do they even think about the people who work removing their pile of garbage? They clearly don't care. Sad.
Don't people flatten boxes before they dump them? That needs a circular memo to all the offices
Thx for the video ! ... But why the heck, does someone throw away a fully functional laser printer ? huh ? I don't get that one hmmmm
Dave reckons that the office closed down and they are moving out.
I'm sad to see so much working stuff being sent to waste :(
Oki dokey, another Oki!
I'd take the reduction of the dumpster dive videos as a good thing. People throwing away e-waste like that... ugh. That printer is probably worth more than my car, to say nothing of the bonus toner.
They aren't "throwing it away", so why is it "ugh" ?? Anything placed out like that is simply being given away. This is exceptionally common here in Australia... if we don't want something that still works we just place it somewhere obvious and somebody else will take it. I score an absolutely incredible amount of electronics and homewares in this exact same way.
@@johncoops6897 Really glad to hear that, and count yourself lucky. Here in the 'States, that printer would have gone _in_ the dumpster, ensuring damage beyond repair. Even if the unit is intact like Dave found, it's actually illegal in most cases to retrieve it. (If you're caught, it's treated like trespassing & petty theft. Or so I hear. 😇) So, apologies for the initial lack of clarity, but there it is.
@@McTroyd - normally such items would be placed on the curb with a sign saying "free". People do the exact same thing in most states of the USA.
@@johncoops6897 Quite right. That's the exception proving the rule, I'm afraid. We The People throw out a lot more than we should.
@@McTroyd - the only thing we can (each) do is to try and retrieve and recycle/repurpose whatever we can. Also take time to share amongst friends the concept of gifting rather than dumping.
Ye. I found a Lamborghini in dumpster.
Print some money 😁👍👍👍
You have very rich dumpster haha
Geez, Suez gets everywhere, they pick up out trash here in 🇬🇧
I knew they were big, but damn, they are huge.
They were, up until a few months ago, the city water supplier in Boise, Idaho. Water rates went way up after they took over years ago, and I am sure the new company will continue the trend. Dislike these mega international conglomerates that are slowly taking over the world.
how much profit from dumpster?
This thingi is a big bunch of chicken dinners.
My job gives me the opportunity old laptops and old work cellphones when they upgrade them I would check the phone boxes they might of put the old cellphones in them
Unfortunately Google cloud print doesn’t exist anymore
So it's not a laser then.
It works exactly the same as a laser, but it uses LED instead of a laser.
Lab is a mess, beautiful.
It was hard to find floor space...
I know I'm only a "dumb yank," but sometimes I get Dave's voice confused with Big Clive.
Ummm, WOT? The voices couldn't be any more different. They are different shapes and have different _"preferences"_ too.
Second?
Yes
FIRST! lol
Booooring. Nothing to repair ? What is this. Boooo.
Okidata MC780 MFP Specifications:
Introduction Date: Introduction Date attribute description 06/2013
MSRP: MSRP attribute description $3,499.00
Paper Capacity: Paper Capacity attribute description 530 Sheets
Toner Cartridge Yield, Black: Toner Cartridge Yield, Black attribute description Estimated 15,000 @ 5%
Toner Cartridge Yield, Color: Toner Cartridge Yield, Color attribute description C/M/Y: Estimated 11,500 @ 5%
Drum Yield, Black: Drum Yield, Black attribute description Estimated 30,000 Pages
Drum Yield, Color: Drum Yield, Color attribute description Estimated 30,000 Pages
Fuser Unit Yield: Fuser Unit Yield attribute description Estimated 60,000 Pages
Transfer Belt Unit Yield: Transfer Belt Unit Yield attribute description Estimated 60,000 Pages
Pages per Minute, Black: Pages per Minute, Black attribute description 42
Pages per Minute, Color: Pages per Minute, Color attribute description 42
Monthly Duty Cycle: Monthly Duty Cycle attribute description 150,000 Impressions
Recommended Monthly Volume: Recommended Monthly Volume attribute description 10,000 Impressions
First Page Print Time: First Page Print Time attribute description 13 sec color/13 sec black
Two-Sided Printing: Two-Sided Printing attribute description Auto
Supported Page Size: Supported Page Size attribute description Index Card, Letter, Legal
It's bloody old.
you might need a black drum unit if you have sanding Mfr. Part#: 46484104
2nd print was fine