Selling/Supporting Inkjet Printers and Ubuntu Linux

Computer Recycling is now selling refurbished Inkjet Printers. We're selling the Inkjet Printers as tested, with cartridges, but without ink or with very low ink. We've been working with a local ink refilling shop very close to us, BTI Solutions, in order to test printers. We've started to maintain a local database of information about which printers easily work with Ubuntu Linux and which ones don't, so not only are we testing the printers for fitness, we're making sure we support Linux as much as we can.

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Canon BJ-30 Bubble Jet Printer

A few days ago we received a Canon BJ-30 Bubble jet printer as part of a group of printer donations. We tested this tiny printer which measures about 1 foot wide by 1/2 foot long when the lid is closed. Amazingly the donated printer still contained ink. Sadly it seems that Canon has discontinued making any drivers or information for Windows available on their web site. We tested the printer under Ubuntu Linux version 10.04 and it printed a test page flawlessly (we even got a full tank of ink). I called our favourite ink re-filler and found that the do indeed still carry the cartridges for this portable printer. We looked around for information about the BJ-30 and discovered that this tiny printer is 720dpi x 360 dpi, although we suspect that number is a software-interpolation number that depends on a Windows driver. As anyone can see from our screen shot above the printer seems to print just fine. The biggest downside to the printer we felt was the lack of a USB port, and the

Considering Godaddy hosting?

I've been a Godaddy customer for several years. When I first signed on with Godaddy their hosting was reasonably efficient and very affordable. While the afford-ability has stayed the same the quality of hosting has dropped magnitudes. Godaddy simply hasn't been a good host now for several years, and it simply isn't worth the "affordable" price anymore because of the lack of stability. What am I talking about? Regular 500 Internal Server Errors resulting from the servers simply being overloaded. Godaddy just can't handle their success and as a result has commodified everything to the point where their offerings are just crap. If the site's not available most of the time it isn't worth the money, no matter how little you spend.

[Unofficial] Computer Recycling Blog

My, my, where has the time gone? My last post on this blog was way back in 2013, 6 years ago. The first post(s) to this blog was way back on June 7, 2008, almost 11 years ago. Back then I was posting about interesting items that came into The Working Centre's Computer Recycling Project. Somewhere along the way I stopped posting on this blog and started cross-posting about the items on my own web site. It seems fitting now that personal projects be separated to my domain https://www.charlesmccolm.com/ (defunct) and Computer Recycling projects be listed here. A lot has changed over the years, but many things also remain the same. I've been very blessed over the years to have a lot of fantastic volunteers, and I hope this will continue into the future. Among the things volunteers do are: Receive and organize incoming donations Sort and evaluate donated equipment Build Windows (through the Microsoft Registered Refurbisher Program) computers for qualified Low-Income indivi

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