5 Jul
2001
5 Jul
'01
8:19 a.m.
Rumor has it that Richard Erlacher may have mentioned these words:
I know this one's over 10 years old, because I just
saw the check I wrote for
one of my LaserJet-III types. I've got three of these, and one is making
a bit
of trouble in that the paper doesn't feed down to
the point at which the
tray's
empty. However, it does claim there's a paper jam,
which there is once in a
while, when it's folded a sheet in half and tried to eat it. It's toothless,
though and doesn't shred the paper.
Has anyone got a useful suggestion as to how to restore the formerly
excellent
feed capability of this otherwise quite excellent
printer?
It's a "marvel"... ;-) as in - Marven Mystery Oil. Used sparingly, it's
quite good at putting the "stickyness" back into rubber grabbers. I've used
it on quite a few HP deskjets & on 2 LaserJet HP4's...
It's best used with a soft, cotton, lint free (or close) cloth. (read: Old
T-shirt)
Next question ...
One other of these guys keeps displaying "Service 50" on his display.
What
does
this mean? What does it want?
dunno 'zactly, but if you go to "www.fixyourownprinter.com" (yea, it's
a
hokey URL) they have "kits" to fix the more common "service errors"
for the
HP LaserJets (with simple instructions...) IIRC, they have a search utility
to see if they have a kit that matches your number.
Their kits don't seem too outrageous in price, AFAICT...
HTH,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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