If you have a Brother HL-1040, HL-1050, HL-1060 or MFC-P2000, be aware that 
they are the subject of a factory recall campaign. There is a problem with 
the fuser cartridges (the expensive one) that can cause a fire. Details are 
available at www.brother.com/usa. They'll give you the name of whoever 
handles Brother service in your area. You'll have to take the printer there 
along with a printed copy of the recall page, and they will replace the fuser 
cartridge. In my case (Raleigh NC), the local guy says that the fusers are on 
backorder, and they wouldn't/couldn't give me a date when they will have the 
replacements. Moral: Call ahead. The upside is that mine is almost 4 years 
old, and was probably due for replacement soon.

Even though this message may be OT, I'm posting it because the recall has not 
been widely publicized. I only found out about it by accident when I visited 
the Brother site for another purpose and saw this little note up in the 
corner of their home page. For some reason, Brother doesn't seem to have made 
any attempt to directly contact registered owners, although they've never 
hesitated to send me e-mails about their latest and greatest. (And yes, I 
_did_ register my printer.)

HTH someone --
-- cmg

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