Laser printer transfer drum

The drivers for XP are here

I've got a 6300. The drums are dear. I'd bin it and get an LJ4 or 5...

With mono laser printers available for as little as £125, it is rarely worth buying major components for old ones these days.

Colin Bignell

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I bought a HP Laser Jet 1018 (new) for £50 last year and it is excellent. Binned the inkjet and have given up colour!

Peter

Or even half that! It's getting to the stage where a new toner cart for = a cheap laser is more expensive than an identical brand new printer.

And FWIW the 6300 is a winprinter. It's brilliant drivers stop any other printer working with your PC IME, and take a lot of resources up.

Try comp.misc.peripherals.printers You need a new drum tho, or a second hand one.

I did a fair bit of research on some printer fault I had, and parts are available for most machines, second hand ex ebay and other places. However in the end it looked as cheap to by an old refurbed decent printer anyway. In my case the problem went away (weird)

Also, my printer (HP laserjet) has the transfer drum as part of the ink cartridge anyway..you should check this..depending on te spacing of the (horizontal?) lines it may be the transfer or the fuser drums. These are all standard parts that all go eventually and all need replacing as part of a regular maintenance cycle.

Well maybe and maybe not.

My laserjet 5P is now 20 years old and is still going strong.

I am not sure that a new £125 printer will keep me going another 20 years..

I would FAR rather have a secondhand 5P at £70 or less than new Laser at £125.

Could you tell me what the winning lottery tickets will be on Saturday? The

I don't disagree that old HP printers are good things, but if you shop carefully, taking into account both up front and recurret costs some modern printers are fine. My Samsung Ml-1650 works fine in a 'home office' environmet and doesn't take up too much desk real-estate.

Andy

I don't believe you - mostly because I remember when laserjet 4's came out, and that was less than 20 years ago.

cheers, clive

Yup. Copyright date on my LJ4 manual is 1992, so for one to be 20 years old would mean they made them for 5 years. And I had a LJ4 dated 1993, so that makes it 6 years! Very unlikely...

apologies, Its a 6P.. Bought sometime in the mid 80's

I don't know where you get those dates from..4's 5's and 6's were all mid 80s designs.

Well, it was certainly prior to 1993, because I had it at my old house..

Come to think of it, it may have been around 1989..which would only be

We're talking about HP laserjets, not Apple LaserWriters - LJ 6P is even newer than the 5P.

cheers, clive

I have to agree with TNP on this one.

I have a Laserjet 5M that I've had for a long while and it works impeccably.

A more recent MFD, also from HP, not at the cheapest end of the range, is OK but only OK. The firmware has an obvious memory leak which happens if either or both DHCP or PNP modes are enabled. With these, it will crash every few days and require repowering. Fortunately, I can work around that. The scanning software for Windows is somewhat fragile, although that may well be Windows. On the Mac it's fine.

This appears to be as a result of products being made down to a price and having a short market lifetime.

Once again the consumer shoots himself in the foot.

Wikipedia -

I think you must be confusing the 1980s and the 1990s :-> The first commercial laser printer was only produced in 1976, and I remember buying an early Xerox laser printer in about 1987 and eliciting a lot of interst in an office environment still dominated by daisy wheel and dot matrix printers. In early 1993 we were stll purchasing new Laserjet 3s in quite a well funded government lab, and we still used dot matrix printers until the mid

Now for real IT nostalgia - HP pen plotters, the fun of finding pens that hadn't dried up, and the pleasure of programming HPGL commands to draw and label graphs - PU0,0; PD10,10;PU. I think I still have a few reams of shiny plotter paper - it used to be doled out begrudgingly to individual projects as if it was a vital, finite, resource - quite galling to find that our storeman had actually squirreled away a supply that lasted well past the life time of the plotters.

Andy

I still have a big Roland A1 and small A3 plotter. Plus a stock of pens and film/paper. Rarely used now though.

Sorry, but for some makes/models it's been that way for at least two years. My Samsung was =A350 in Office World. New cartridges on the shelf were =A370. Luckily, by the time I needed one they were down to =A350. Last time I needed one, I almost bought another printer instead, but they don't ship with a full cartridge.

MBQ

But that's what the job of a storeman, is to keep stores. People coming in and asking for things depletes his stores and he has to order more...

I got several boxes of 5 hole tape from our stores several years after the last teleprinter using tape had been retired.