Anyone suggest a good reliable b&w laser printer? Mine's just cra*

En el artículo , Scott M escribió:

It doesn't seem to hurt the rubber flexies that go from the fixed pipes to the wheels.

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Mike Tomlinson
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It has probably got some internal button or other jammed. Prod around a few times and drop it 1cm then 2cm to see if the shock will free it.

I have variously had Samsung 2550 (mono duplex) and Dell 1320c (colour)

- both are big and ugly but very reliable. Old HP Laserjet ones are good too. The Dell manages almost photoreal quality on the right media. You want something with cheap aftermarket cartridges.

If you can live with a big ugly printer there are bargains out there.

And if you choose wisely you can avoid high toner costs. A full set of CMYK toner cartridges (not OEM) for the Dell costs me under £20 whereas the book price for a set of the official ones would be more like £240.

If you choose wisely then a colour laser is a bit more expensive to buy but once decent aftermarket toner becomes available relatively cheap to run (especially compared to usurious inkjet ink prices).

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Martin Brown

This is very true of course - although it does make me think that brake fluid would be designed to not react *at all* with rubber whether in a good way or bad.

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Scott M

En el artículo , Martin Brown escribió:

Ah, the good old percussive maintenance.

Ounce for ounce, printer ink is more expensive than gold.

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Mike Tomlinson

En el artículo , Scott M escribió:

I think the idea is that it just 'wets' the rubber a little and makes the paper easier to pick up. You wouldn't slather it on, of course - wiping gently with a barely dampened bit of rag would be enough.

The 'feel' between a worn printer paper pickup/feed roller and a replacement new one is quite marked. The worn one is glazed and slippery, the replacement is more matte and 'grabby'.

Rubbing a worn roller with some very fine wet and dry paper also works.

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Mike Tomlinson

Don't knock it! It works often enough to be always worth a try!

(especially if you are about to throw it away)

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Martin Brown

Aftermarket inkjet cartridges can be cheap too. You can also buy ink and refill some.

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Dave Plowman (News)

It could be designed to get the maximum life out of the 'rubber' seals in cylinders and calipers, etc.

I've no personal experience of using it for other than brakes, but have read it can soften the rubber cone surrounds on old speaker chassis and give them good service.

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Dave Plowman (News)

Indeed but they are comparatively messy and forever using up their ink in extensive cleaning cycles. I have an inkjet for A3+ printing.

If you only print intermittently about half the ink ends up being used in cleaning cycles or head cleaning actions. I use aftermarket third party inks in my inkjet too although I avoid the very cheapest since they seem to jam up print heads far too often.

I probably wouldn't chance it with the new pigment based inks either.

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Martin Brown

The mess from a spilled toner cartridge has to be experienced to believe. ;-)

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Dave Plowman (News)

Got a mono for shop (Ecosys FS-1100) and a colour @ home.

Originally bought it (them) because of ease of refilling cartridges which I found on my previous laser to be able to get at least a 2nd fill on the same cartridge but these days I CBA and an after market toner cart. isn't significantly more expensive than the refill kit once postage etc is factored in.

As with most printers these days you either get a really cheap printer and pay through the nose for cartridges or you pay a realistic price for the printer and get much better priced consumables.

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En el artículo , Martin Brown escribió:

Oh, agreed totally. I wasn't disagreeing with you, sorry if it seemed that way.

It's just that trick (lifting something a couple inches and dropping it or giving it a clou)t worked more often than not and is known as percussive maintenance.

With the early BBC micros that used shitty DIL IC sockets, it often got a recalcitrant machine going.

And there was a time when giving a valve telly a whack to stop it misbehaving was regarded as normal...

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Mike Tomlinson

I found to my immense surprise that brake fluid did indeed remove the tacky horrible feel of ageing rubberised plastic with no ill effects on the plastic. I'd recommend wearing suitable inert gloves though.

The result after cleaning was not quite as mat as the original surface.

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Martin Brown

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