So many laser printers dumped away. Anyone plz give ideas if we can
make use of parts ? mainly the laser inside ? or other parts ? or a
link for such info ?? thanks

Goldenshuttle wrote:
So many laser printers dumped away. Anyone plz give ideas if we can
make use of parts ? mainly the laser inside ? or other parts ? or a
link for such info ?? thanks



The laser is just about worthless, it's a 3-5 mW infrared diode of
approximately the same power as a $3 laser pointer only invisible. Laser
printers do have lots of good mechanical bits though, especially the
polygon scanner mirror.

There are lots of freecycle groups over on yahoogroups.com

On Thu, 22 Dec 2005, Goldenshuttle wrote:

So many laser printers dumped away. Anyone plz give ideas if we can
make use of parts ? mainly the laser inside ? or other parts ? or a
link for such info ?? thanks