Hi guys, Yes, it's night time and it's another nighttime Dum dumpster dive and check out what? I got somebody has left this puppy down here. it's a HP LaserJet 3700 I have no idea uh, the specs of it or if it's any good, but it looks, you know, looks like a pretty decent uh color printer. So I might NAB that take it back to the Uh lab and give it a b and there's some sort of big rack instrument on top. No idea what that is I'll have to.

uh, have to check that out. Okay I just powered the thing up and it said it had 64 Meg of memory and it is. uh, it is. Boo in it's a big beast I mean this thing is bloody heavy I don't know how much it weighs like 60 kilos or something I don't know, it's A.

It is a big beast. It's obviously designed for really high volume, uh, high volume printing that's for sure. Gee, not exactly. This is one of these printers that you don't just you know, like 10c warm 5sec warm up.

You turn it on and boom you're ready to print. I Don't think this thing is designed to stay on all day long? Oh there you go. There you go. The black is, uh, there's a lot of black left.

Awesome. So it's ready. There you go. So I'll uh here we go.

I'll show you inside. Oh yeah, look at that. It's uh, supposed to drop down the lid on that, but it didn't and uh, there's yeah, there's like evidence of toner everywhere on this thing and if we open open that up, you can see toner on the top of that drum. I'm not sure if that's normal or not.

I don't know how much replacement cartridges for this would cost or even if you can actually get like really cheap third party replacement, you probably can. Um, you can at least for the lowend printers I'm not sure how highend this one is or how old it is. It's not really new because, um, it doesn't have a networking on the back. It's only got uh, USB and uh, old centronics.

so hey, if it works I don't know where I'd put it. it's absolutely enormous I've just got a I'll show you the one I've got at the moment at the moment, all I've got is this, uh, brother HL 3045 CN and well, it's um, it, it's doing. It's kind of holding in there for printing my invoices like thousands of uh uh, labels and stuff now, but it's really getting some uh, crap on the drum. and I tried the drum cleaning on it and uh, well, no, that doesn't work.

so I'm getting spots all over my image I might have to. uh, maybe there's a better way to clean it I don't know, but yeah, the other one would take up a bit more d space in this one I suspect I Accidentally told it to print the menu map, but anyway, it's trying to print something. It did detect that I put plain A4 paper in there so that, uh, it's something's coming out. something's coming out.

It's got some toner over it, but oh look. Winner winner chicken dinner. Look at that. that looks beautiful.

Yeah, the cartridges are all okay. That's fine. It's printed in color. Holy crap, we have a winner here folks.

Print Usage page: Let's see how much usage this sucker has had. It's not particularly quick either, but um, you know, hey, I'll take it. Not sure how much it's worth I don't know how much can you pick these up for an eBay Got no idea, but here we go. Um A4 it's only got an A4 uh tray.

By the way, it doesn't have an A3 tray. this um, one here is just external uh feed. so maybe you can get add-on uh, ones that sit on the bottom I'm not so sure, but it's paper p 66 Oh Mono. There we go.

18,000 mono pages 48,00 ,50 color pages. Is that a lot for 66,000 pages? I Don't know. But yeah, there we go. 69,000 Pages total.

There we go. So yeah, it doesn't sound like a huge amount for a big uh office. Um, sort of. You know, big big professional printer like this.

Okay, I'm going to print the demo. don't know what that is. What does it? print? A nice fancy color, uh, photo or something. Or maybe like a test, uh, pattern or something like that color calibration test pattern.

but this is I mean it looks really good. There's no, uh, excess toner on the page or anything. So there we go. that popped out.

Oh look at that. Look at that hello Wow. Look at the color in that that looks stunning. That is fantastic I Love it.

That is just gorgeous. Look at that that is Miles Ahead of my crappy little uh brother W that cost you know what? 150 bucks or something? I don't know it was like bottom of the range but that is that is magnificent. Wow! I have certainly scored an absolute winner here. I mean I haven't hooked out the PC yet? Um, I will do that, but I'm going to assume that well, there's you know if it prints, then you'd be pretty darn unlucky not to have it.

um, work. Uh, when it hooks up to the USB So there you go. Beauty Another awesome dumpster dive. and if you're curious to know what this rack thing was, well, it's some sort of rack mount PC like a you know, server type.

uh thing. not much in it, but there is a main board and uh, the reason I nabbed it is because well, it's got USB 3 and um, you know, 6 gbits per second s it's it's reasonably modern. I would presume it's only got a stock in Intel fan on it. so I'm not sure what Intel process is.

Somebody's nicked the power supply. So like you know, here, there's a Main's cable coming in like that. so somebody's nicked that. but hey, um, you know, maybe um, I could reuse the motherboard in a better shazzy.

Of course, is that a I'm not. Uh, sure. Off hand, is that a standard uh, looks like a standard format motherboard. But yeah, I mean there's no memory in it.

But anyway, it's a gigabyte? No, it's an Isus 7 P 550. LX I don't know. Sounds a bit oldish. uh.

turbo V technology. what's on the back? Let's have a look. sorry I can't see this. uh USB 3 external S no integrated video though.

So oh well. but uh yeah. I don't know. Probably have to get a separate power supply and power that up.

Um, at the very least, rip off that and uh, see what processor in there I might do that now. actually sorry, you can't see that very well, but that is a core I7 Beauty um not sure which I7 870 is it? I'm not. anyway. I'm not sure I'd have to, uh, look up the particular part number for that one 2.93 gig.

Um, anyway, a core I7 is no slouch, so I'm assuming that that sucker works I have no idea why they tossed it out, but uh, you know it's got PCI it's got four P five PCI slots on the thing USB 3 core I7 processor. Geez, I'll just I can just whack that in a case assuming it works and put a power supply on it and some memory and uh, and a better heat sink of course. and well, that could make a better live streaming. Uh PC cuz I was looking at getting one so wow yeah I'll take that so that's not bad for today's dumpster diving.

Haven't had a decent uh dumpster dive in a while, but a fully working color laser. You know, high-end printer like that even though it's quite old. um I'm assum. Well I hope I can get Windows 7 drivers for it anyway.

Um, but it works. a treat and a uh core I7 motherboard I'll take that any day of the week. Um yeah, no idea why they tossed it out, but n there you go, Not too bad. Dumpster Dive wins again.

Catch you next time.