On many occasions, the meticulous work of our wonderful Restarters has helped to clean, repair, defeat planned obsolescence and give a second life to printers that were just about ready to be taken to a recycling centre.
Computers and home office
We see loads of laptops, but also home office equipment at our Restart Parties, including peripherals and printers. We fix about half of what comes, and between 20-25% is repairable, it just needs more attention.
One thing we’ve learned over the years: printers have the ability to really frustrate us.
Training, and saving laptops
We had our first, more formal training this week, at the invite of Brent Libraries. Our Restarters worked with 10 people who had signed up for our “Speed Up Your Laptop” training. None wanted to give up on their laptops, but really did feel they needed some basic maintenance skills.
Our Top Fixes of 2012: #1 – Epson, We Have a Problem!
And the winner is… It might appear as cheating that we decided to pick the case of the infamous Epson Stylus D68, which we already wrote about back in December as our symbolic top fix so far. In short, it’s the story of a printer which stopped functioning all of a sudden, leaving the owner with […]
Our Top Fixes of 2012: #4 – Clean Your Fan, Mate!
A whole lot of dust inside a 6-year-old Macbook! Janet’s laptop has been a source of inspiration for The Restart Project. Months before planning the first event, we were already “restarting” her old white MacBook, by adding additional RAM, updating some applications and clearing space from the hard drive, in order to speed it up. […]