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echo: electronics
to: August Abolins
from: Jasen Betts
date: 2003-05-25 19:42:04
subject: Printers

Hi August.

24-May-03 19:13:00, August Abolins wrote to Michael Hall


 AA> Hi Michael (of 1:219/308), On , in
 AA> a message to Roy J. Tellason you wrote:

 MH>> There must be something mighty valuable in those cartridges. A
 MH>> school near where I live gets money for returning them...

 AA> There are many recycle-programs in place.  One in Canada offers $1
 AA> per cartridge (as long as it's an original).  You send the company
 AA> an "invoice" and they send a PurchaseOrder.  And THEY pay the
 AA> shipping!   Minumum order 50 units per order.  Not too shabby

Over here Canon will pay return return postage on individual (phpootocopier toner
cartridges (no bounty though, just freight))

I'm guessing it's a scheme to make life harder for remanufacturers.

 -=> Bye <=-

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