Best way to toss a printer?

some town weigh stations have electronics receiving. my brother worked in one and received all sorts of electronics.... some of them still perfectly functional.

So I was going to create a new thread but I did a search and came across this thread. I was going to take old printer to ewaste, but thanks for the trade in bonus reminders. My question was: What are the security risks, if any when recycling all in one printers? For ex. Do they retain your scan images in memory somewhere in the printer? Is there anything one should do before recycling printers as far as data erasure, etc?

sell the printer parts! ebay

Just find an unattended dumpster someplace. Apartment complexes are my favorite place to find them.

Either that, or just catapult it.

um, angry birds anyone?

Quote from silvery79 : My question was: What are the security risks, if any when recycling all in one printers? For ex. Do they retain your scan images in memory somewhere in the printer? Is there anything one should do before recycling printers as far as data erasure, etc?

Anyone know?

Quote from silvery79 : So I was going to create a new thread but I did a search and came across this thread. I was going to take old printer to ewaste, but thanks for the trade in bonus reminders. My question was: What are the security risks, if any when recycling all in one printers? For ex. Do they retain your scan images in memory somewhere in the printer? Is there anything one should do before recycling printers as far as data erasure, etc?

The best advice I can give is to thoroughly read the manual.

In most cases the printers don't store much if anything in their memory. Make sure there aren't any memory cards in the printer's card reader. Many AIO printers do have internal memory that can store received faxes, scans generally wouldn't be stored internally in consumer oriented AIO's.

Go through the menus and try every option to reset the device or erase memory. Check if any internal memory in the device shows us as an SMB share.