OT: Older Color Laser Printer Repair or replacement.

=-=-=-= Of course: replies offlist, please!!! =-=-=-= Anyone here know boatloads about older color laser printers? Well, it's almost ontopic - the printer's 7 or 8 years old, IIRC, and it's got plusses for 'kewl-factor'. ;-) Well, it *used* to... see below. I have a QMS MagiColor 2 (CX engine) with lots of extra goodies: 112Meg RAM, 2G SCSI hard drive, *serial port*, Ethernut... and the thing just started going to Hades in a handbasket. It's always been a little flaky with paper handling, but otherwise has been ultra-reliable if you knew it's paper quirks. Now it's durned near impossible to deal with... but that's not the *big* problem. The nearly new black toner cart (less than 1000 sheets of it's 10000 sheet life) is now 'low', the nearly new magenta toner cart ( less than 500 sheets) is *out*, and I had to hack up a cyan cart with the magenta 'code insert thingy' to fool it into printing again (if any toner goes 'emtpy' the printer refuses to print) and the nearly new OPC belt ( less than 2000 of a 30000+ page lifespan) has developed several bad spots. All this seemed to happen within 100 pages or so. :-O Is the printer worth saving, or should I just drop it off my deck (10 foot drop - would be quite satisfying to see, after I strip the HD and memory out of it...)? Or does anyone want it for parts for cost of shipping? (Warning: it's a 110+ pound beastie; it would *not* be cheap to ship.) If it's not worth saving, anyone have experience with a good color laser printer? Preferably < $1000, and I want *bitchin* paper handling (read: no paper jams). Please don't say HP. ;-) The best I've found during my research so far is the Ricoh Aficio CL2000N - about $560 street price, and has oodles of options available (most of which I don't need), affordable consumables, and supposedly really good paper handling, according to the reviews I've found. Oh, and about 1/2 the weight of my current printer. Sorry for the offtopicness, but I don't know where else to turn, and I'm looking for advice from people I trust. ;-) Thanks, Roger "Merch" Merchberger -- Roger "Merch" Merchberger -- SysAdmin, Iceberg Computers zmerch at 30below.com Hi! I am a .signature virus. Copy me into your .signature to join in!