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# Computer Recycling #
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# by Andy Waite #
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Ok, I know this may sound like a leaflet for Greenpeace etc. but reading
this article can save you alot of money! In about the year 2050, what's
left of the UK will look and smell like s**t unless we do something about
it Most of you who are reading this will either be dead from radiation
from VDUs or will of died of old age, but read this anyway!
PAPER
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Most ST owners who use their computer for things other than games will
have a printer. Paper is graded in mgs (milligrams). This is how much
the paper weighs per square metre. Normal listing paper is about 60mg -
This costs about £15 for 1000 sheets. Do this - Buy two boxes of paper,
one a low mg as you can find and the other about 100mg. Use the bog roll
stuff for listings or printing out articles from STEN etc. (no offensive
Dave, but STEN does eat alot of paper) and the good stuff for DTP files
etc. Use condensed print where possible - then you can get about 132 cpl
(characters per line). You will probably have to loads document into a
WP program first - e.g. 1st Word (+). If you're printing out big
documents, don't bin them after you've finished, put them back in the
printer and print on the other side!
RIBBONS
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A ribbon can print out millions (billions?) of characters in it's life
which should be enough for about 1000 pages of draft or 500 pages of NLQ
(at 40 column). Pictures use up alot of ink because they usually go over
a line 2-4 times to make it jet black. Ribbons are expensive - around £7
for a Star 9-pins (LC10, LC20, LC200 etc.). Don't throw away your
ribbons when they're finished - send them with a SSAE, a note saying what
kind of printer you have, and a £1 coin to:
Freaks PDL
29 Leap Valley Crescent
Downend
Bristol
BS16 6TQ
They will return the ribbon to you with jet black ink, even blacker than
when you got it!
There doesn't seem to be any way to re-ink coloured ribbons - shame, they
cost £10 - £15.
ENVELOPES
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Padded envelopes cost about 30p which isn't bad. If you get lots of PD
through the post, you'll get loads of them. DON'T BIN THEM! Just put a
white sticker of the address and stamp (don't just take it off, the P.O.
people will see the date stamp and think