At 2:02 PM -0600 12/2/2009, Ralph Green wrote: >It sure sounds like a dirty fuser. On a different model Laserjet, I >solved a similar problem by cleaning the fuser wire. Is your fuser wire >exposed, so you can run a cotton cloth down it? They are pretty >fragile, so you want to do that with a light touch.
Dirty fuser seems to be the consensus (incl private replies). I'm poking around now for directions on how to get to it. Should be interesting; I've never been in a laser printer's guts before. This could be fun and/or messy. (Hopefully I'll have no leftover parts!) At 8:02 AM -0800 12/3/2009, t...@io.com wrote: >On Dec 2, 3:13 pm, Lawrence David Eden wrote: >>If I learned anything from this episode it was that printers are >>not worth the time and trouble to fix. In the long run, it would >>have been far easier and much less expensive to just buy a new >>printer. > >Last year about this time three or four models of Color Laser >Printer were available from $200 - $300 with free shipping, and >ethernet and postscript built in. Trying to avoid buying a new printer right now. It's already been a very expensive season - rv repairs, car repairs, cat repairs, giant price hikes on meds, ... We also have two other printers on our house network: A (dying) Epson inkjet and the Evil Smelly Crayon Pooper (a Xerox Phaser 8400DP wax printer). So if I can't fix the LaserJet, there's no big rush to replace it. sigh I'm not a big fan of printer shopping. Cost of a new fuser vs economy of a newer printer. blech. >What finally decided me was that the Kyocera was $50 cheaper and has >AppleTalk protocol support (AppleTalk over Ethernet, not LocalTalk >media), whereas the Xerox printer only listed TCP/IP. We do both TCP/IP and AppleTalk. Just using the AT for older Macs (non OS X) now. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
