On Jul 27, 2006, at 2:28 PM, Chuck Israels wrote:
I remember some discussion a while ago about cleaning and maintenance
for the HP 5000 printer duplexer - a maintenance kit or some such -
and what to use as a solvent. Don't know how to search the list.
Anybody remember, or can point me in the right direction?
Duplexer jams every page, and a search of HP's site turned up nothing
useful.
Both the printer and its duplexer are obsolete. There never was a
maintenance package for the duplexer, which was a weak point with
this otherwise magnificent printer. When the duplexer wore out, your
only option was and is to buy a replacement duplexer, which you can
now do only thru e-bay or the like.
*However,* the life of the duplexer can be extended by thoroughly
cleaning off the rollers with rubbing alcohol. Try that and see if
your jams go away, and if they do, clean the rollers again every time
the duplexer starts to jam again.
Someone objected that rubbing alcohol would eventually degrade the
rollers, but I have now gone thru three of the duplexers w.o reaching
that point, so I don't think it's something you have to worry about.
If cleaning the rollers doesn't work, your duplexer is just plain worn
out and you'll have to find a replacement somewhere. Since HP no
longer makes it, what you'll be buying is a remanufactured one, which
will have a shorter lifetime than the OEM duplexer did.
Andrew Stiller
Kallisti Music Press
http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/
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