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whumpdotcom!Our nice old laser printer (an HP 4L) stopped printing on Friday, instead making worrisome noises and claiming it had a paper jam.
cattitude has now taken it apart, and thinks the problem is almost certainly the laser unit, which means it's toast. That, in turn, means we need to get the fax/printer/copier set up as a printer; the output won't be as good for black-and-white, and Cattitude suspects it won't last more than a year in that mode.
Dealing with printers is annoying. Also annoying is that we'd replaced the ink cartridge a few weeks ago, and barely used it: and that the UPS man was here Friday, and I gave him the previous one to return for recycling, so we couldn't test the hypothesis that the problem was with the cartridge.
This most likely means that we have available a cartridge suited to the Hewlett Packard Laserjet 4L and some other machines, and an assortment of spare parts, including extra memory. What we don't have is any tidy way of shipping the cartridge: you'd get to pick it up and get it where you're going. I can provide plastic bags, but this cartridge has been opened and you're likely to get toner on your clothes, vehicle, et cetera.
Conversely, if anyone has a cartridge we can borrow--I'm not spending the money for another new cartridge to verify that this is the problem--please let me know. For this purpose, one that no longer prints well would be as good as a fresh one: I'd just be putting it in and seeing whether I got a printer error or a faint/streaky page. (I'll pick up the cartridge or reimburse you for postage.)
cattitude has now taken it apart, and thinks the problem is almost certainly the laser unit, which means it's toast. That, in turn, means we need to get the fax/printer/copier set up as a printer; the output won't be as good for black-and-white, and Cattitude suspects it won't last more than a year in that mode.Dealing with printers is annoying. Also annoying is that we'd replaced the ink cartridge a few weeks ago, and barely used it: and that the UPS man was here Friday, and I gave him the previous one to return for recycling, so we couldn't test the hypothesis that the problem was with the cartridge.
This most likely means that we have available a cartridge suited to the Hewlett Packard Laserjet 4L and some other machines, and an assortment of spare parts, including extra memory. What we don't have is any tidy way of shipping the cartridge: you'd get to pick it up and get it where you're going. I can provide plastic bags, but this cartridge has been opened and you're likely to get toner on your clothes, vehicle, et cetera.
Conversely, if anyone has a cartridge we can borrow--I'm not spending the money for another new cartridge to verify that this is the problem--please let me know. For this purpose, one that no longer prints well would be as good as a fresh one: I'd just be putting it in and seeing whether I got a printer error or a faint/streaky page. (I'll pick up the cartridge or reimburse you for postage.)
Our nice old laser printer (an HP 4L) stopped printing on Friday, instead making worrisome noises and claiming it had a paper jam.
cattitude has now taken it apart, and thinks the problem is almost certainly the laser unit, which means it's toast. That, in turn, means we need to get the fax/printer/copier set up as a printer; the output won't be as good for black-and-white, and Cattitude suspects it won't last more than a year in that mode.
Dealing with printers is annoying. Also annoying is that we'd replaced the ink cartridge a few weeks ago, and barely used it: and that the UPS man was here Friday, and I gave him the previous one to return for recycling, so we couldn't test the hypothesis that the problem was with the cartridge.
This most likely means that we have available a cartridge suited to the Hewlett Packard Laserjet 4L and some other machines, and an assortment of spare parts, including extra memory. What we don't have is any tidy way of shipping the cartridge: you'd get to pick it up and get it where you're going. I can provide plastic bags, but this cartridge has been opened and you're likely to get toner on your clothes, vehicle, et cetera.
Conversely, if anyone has a cartridge we can borrow--I'm not spending the money for another new cartridge to verify that this is the problem--please let me know. For this purpose, one that no longer prints well would be as good as a fresh one: I'd just be putting it in and seeing whether I got a printer error or a faint/streaky page. (I'll pick up the cartridge or reimburse you for postage.)
cattitude has now taken it apart, and thinks the problem is almost certainly the laser unit, which means it's toast. That, in turn, means we need to get the fax/printer/copier set up as a printer; the output won't be as good for black-and-white, and Cattitude suspects it won't last more than a year in that mode.Dealing with printers is annoying. Also annoying is that we'd replaced the ink cartridge a few weeks ago, and barely used it: and that the UPS man was here Friday, and I gave him the previous one to return for recycling, so we couldn't test the hypothesis that the problem was with the cartridge.
This most likely means that we have available a cartridge suited to the Hewlett Packard Laserjet 4L and some other machines, and an assortment of spare parts, including extra memory. What we don't have is any tidy way of shipping the cartridge: you'd get to pick it up and get it where you're going. I can provide plastic bags, but this cartridge has been opened and you're likely to get toner on your clothes, vehicle, et cetera.
Conversely, if anyone has a cartridge we can borrow--I'm not spending the money for another new cartridge to verify that this is the problem--please let me know. For this purpose, one that no longer prints well would be as good as a fresh one: I'd just be putting it in and seeing whether I got a printer error or a faint/streaky page. (I'll pick up the cartridge or reimburse you for postage.)
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