14 Jun
2006
14 Jun
'06
10:47 a.m.
On Wednesday 14 June 2006 03:50 am, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 6/14/2006 at 1:03 AM Roy J. Tellason wrote:
I had one guy suggest cleaning the drum with lint-free cloth and alcohol, but
never tried it. It's a very compact little printer...
Speaking of Panasonic laser printers, I have a
KX-P6500 that's gone weird
on me, puts lines on the pages that aren't supposed to be there.
"Process unit" time? Anybody know where I can get a good deal on one?
Barring that, I have a package of toner for this thing I have no use for
otherwise, the printer having been moved to storage...
Hmmm, if the lines are vertical, it sounds like it's time for a new drum
all right. If you can't find a good deal on e-Pay, you might
give your local cartridge
refill outfit a call--they can often refit an aftermarket drum into the cart
that will last longer and cost much less than the $150 for a new one.
I don't know of any outfits like that around here, but I'll look around some
when I get some money to put into it.
In the meantime, I have this IBM 4019 here... :-)
That one has, I'm told, "a postscript card in it". After popping the side
open and looking at some boards etc. I have no idea which of what boards I'm
looking at might be that card. This one's bigger, I have no idea of the
toner situation, and has a really annoying habit of kicking out a "status
page" every time you power it up. Which wastes an awful lot of paper over
time, or an awful lot of power if I left it on (which I don't plan to do).
I did a bit of digging a while back and the best I could find was that it's
possible to have the printer come up with other emulations ("laserjet" being
one of them, I forget the others) but then I lose the advantage of having a
postscript printer.
Wondering if maybe somebody on the list here knows of any way to disable that
"feature"...?
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