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drewprops
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Atlanta
 
2021-09-01, 16:40

Do we have a thread for discussing recycling of old hardware? If not, here one be!

LASER PRINTER

In the great electronics fry-up of 2021 we said goodbye to our low cost laser printer.

With the replacement in place I tracked down a local electronics recycler that will accept the device.

I know that it's a best practice to remove hard drives from old computers, but is there ANYTHING in a laser printer that might have cached data from previous printouts that could somehow kick up personal information to a scraping organization?

Since there's no hard drive in the machine I suspect that I'm fine to just do a simple hand-off.

Still, Reagan's "Trust, but verify" phrase rings through my head.



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