Wall brackets for a printer

JustAnotherSaver

I know this is more DIY household forum kind of topic but I thought that people who are in the Techie forum are more likely to have experience of these working/not working which is why i've put it here.

I'm trying to free up space at the moment. The room the PC is in is the box bedroom and so space is pretty limited. Right now the printer is stored on the floor.

I've weighed the printer off on the bathroom scales and rounding upwards it's 7kg. Printer is a Samsung M2070.

I've looked at brackets such as

1) https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/UNIVERSAL-PC-Desktop-Printer-Scanner-Wall-Mount-Stand-Brackets-Adjustable-Silver/311515515981?hash=item4887c58c4d:g:ckMAAOSwwPhWhTWf

2) https://www.amazon.co.uk/Part-Universal-Mounting-Adjustable-290-420mm-Black/dp/B01I01I2NW

Pretty similar to each other.

I saw one comment from a reviewer saying he thought the arms wouldn't be that good for something like a printer. He hadn't tried it out, he just wasn't willing to take the risk.

I'd be drilling in to an exterior wall. House is 1930s. Original plaster i imagine underneath this wallpaper. Brick would be somewhere at the back of it so not really sure how long a screw i'd want to be using. I know from the face of the wall to the start of the window is 165mm.

It would literally be right above my monitor and obviously i don't want the printer falling down on top of it.

The other walls in the room aren't solid. Well, 1 of them is but it's blocked off by storage cabinets.

Just wondering if anyone has anything like this or anything better and can comment on how suitable they are. A few years ago i bought some 'heavy duty' brackets for the shed. They may as well have been made out of plasticine.

Neil_Jones

My SX415 sat on a bog standard wood shelf (for a corner) for the best part of 8 years and never fell down once.  To make this story more interesting I put the shelf (and some others) up in 2012 and then went out, putting the printer on the corner one.  Returned two and a half hours to find to my great amazement that the shelves and printer were still on the wall and not in a pile on the floor.

JustAnotherSaver

Cool story.

I'm guessing that's a long way of saying yeah them brackets should be fine.

Whether that was your intended message or not, who knows. Well, you do, but I don't.

daveyjp

Microwave oven brackets.

getmore4less

Printer above a monitor?
If it is the multi function that came up that won't be practical for scan/copy.

Le_Kirk

Most of the weight/force will be in "shear" meaning the tendency for the printer to fall straight down vertically.  Some of the force will be in cantilever meaning the tendency for the printer to pivot away from the wall.  Screws like No. 8 (4 mm) x 2.5 inches (65 mm) in a suitable Plas plug "Big Job" should hold the brackets.  If you are concerned it might fall/pull off the wall, try to find a bracket with a diagonal brace (also called a gusset).

JustAnotherSaver

getmore4less said:

Printer above a monitor?
If it is the multi function that came up that won't be practical for scan/copy.

Why is this?

Unless i put it on the bracket backwards, i don't see what issue it'd be?? It spits the paper out up front.

Have ordered microwave brackets as suggested. Only one way to find out i suppose.

The wall is a little strange. I drilled in to it a few years ago for something and one part was solid but another just left a bigger hole and it was all soft. So long as it's solid i suppose it'll be ok.

Murmansk

JustAnotherSaver said:

Have ordered microwave brackets as suggested. Only one way to find out i suppose. 

The wall is a little strange. I drilled in to it a few years ago for something and one part was solid but another just left a bigger hole and it was all soft. So long as it's solid i suppose it'll be ok.

Drill a nice deep hole and hope that further into the wall you can find something solid - then get a screw that's long enough to go nearly to the bottom of the hole, put in a Rawlplug and tap it into the hole so it locates firmly in the narrower, more solid bit of the hole, then insert your screw to hold the bracket (you'll need 3 screws for microwave brackets)

Mickey666

Don't worry too much about bracket strength.  A 7kg printer is not that heavy in the grand scheme of things, most book shelves would support more weight than that.  I've used ordinary 'london brackets' for bookshelves that have been filled with heavy hardback textbooks with no problem.  The key is to ensure solid fixings.  A brick wall is ideal and 50mm into the brick should be fine, so allow for an 5x80mm screw as a minimum.   Use the right size of drill and plug and the fixing should be rock solid.  The only real risk is that a screw is drilled into soft mortar rather than the brick itself.  This will easily be noticed when drilling.

getmore4less

JustAnotherSaver said:

getmore4less said:

Printer above a monitor?
If it is the multi function that came up that won't be practical for scan/copy.

Why is this?

Unless i put it on the bracket backwards, i don't see what issue it'd be?? It spits the paper out up front.

if it is like the one below the display screen and scanner flatbed will be inconvenient  eye level once on a bracket over a monitor.
even worse for the sheet feed model
(unless you are tall)
It will also stick out quite a bit over the monitor  if a flat screen backing to the wall.

JustAnotherSaver

Yes that's the exact one.

The monitor sits in the corner where the 2 walls meet so each end of the monitor touches a different wall to the other.

I also don't have paper left in the tray. That's in the storage cabinet in my desk. If i left it in the tray it'd just collect dust with the amount that i print.

I rarely copy/scan but if i do then the glass is recessed so i can feel something in to the top corner fine enough.

I can feel the power button and actually i've just had a measure up, i'd probably see it clear enough too. The top of the monitor is probably somewhere in line with my belly button, give or take a bit (wasn't about to break out the tap and get scientific).

And at a push, if i couldn't see anything, i'd just stand on my chair, like i have to when cleaning the dust off the top of the cabinets in here.