Printer help? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

9 Sep 2004

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 From: msokolov(a)ivan.harhan.org

der Mouse &lt;mouse(a)rodents.montreal.qc.ca&gt; wrote:

  I had to replace the fuser on mine because I left
it on 24/7 while
 printing only occasionally (every few days).  The fuser eventually went
 bad under that treatment. 
Hmm, I use mine in the exact same manner, does this mean I'm mistreating
the fuser?  I wonder, would the powersave mode help?  It turns off the
heater, doesn't it?  Right now my printer doesn't go into powersave because
the lower tray is out (see my previous message about looking for a tray
part), but it should work with both trays in.  I would really like the
printer to work as a server, even if it's a rarely used one.

MS

Hi
 The most common failure of the fuser lamps is not the filament,
it is the contacts at the end. They get corroded over time.
I've used some of the lower temperature silver solder on the
lamp ends and that seems to work fine. I've not done this on
the HP yet but I've fix a couple of copiers this way.
 Still, it is a lamp and they do fail over time.
Dwight