Mod your laser printer to totally shred

If your printer had a "reverse" button, it might work something like the modded Xerox laser printer cooked up by InventGeek's Jared Bouck. After gutting most of the printer's internals, Jared added new circuitry and a shredding unit, with the end result being a desktop shredder that can slice through 25 pages a minute. Of course, the mod ended up costing more than many pre-made shredders, and you can forget about using your laser as a printer once you've done this, but if those things really matter to you, chances are you're not going to attempt this mod in the first place.

[Via Slashdot]

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 1:36AM]

OLD NEWS, just because this was posted on slashdot its considered "news worthy" Hell I saw this on tomshardware.com like 3 weeks ago...

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 1:36AM]

Should be a lot of government orders for this one.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 1:36AM]

Finally! I can just print Agrippa direct to the default printer.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 1:36AM]

a device that would make richard nixon himself proud.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 1:36AM]

for secure destruction of documents, what about loading them in like regular paper, and then laser printing a black square over everything?

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 1:36AM]

if only the us government had one of these!

Although I guess we would need a people shredder for all the loose ends as well ;)

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 1:36AM]

Not to mention that in order to build the thing you have to buy two paper shredders...

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 1:36AM]

My laser printer seems to have a document destroyer built-in. My problem is that it does it whenever I try to print.