Printer success

[mtbc]

Both laser printers survived the move. There are now two because I needed a printer before the colour printer arrived from Tennessee. Happily, both were fixed by removing and checking over the parts that users typically expect to change occasionally anyway.

The monochrome printer was printing a vertical line on each page. Removing a fibre of some kind from its innards cured that. Then, a repeating pattern appeared on pages, like a fibre in a different place, but another review of its innards cured that somehow.

The colour printer was not printing colour at all, only black. I suspected CUPS but the problem persisted when netcat'ing PDFs directly to port 9100. Reseating the toner cartridges in the drum unit cured that, the hardest part was noticing the release button for the printer's front cover.

Of course, I gave the corona wire tab some slides back and forth while I was in there, as one does.

Now I have self-adhesive labels with our new address on them, with the help of lp -o media=Manual labels-L7551.ps.

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[thewayne]

We actually had a printer service call at the library last week! We have a very old HP monster, non-color, with a duplexer and add'l feed tray at the front desk that is mainly used for printing book spine labels. For some reason the lower feed tray was making a horrible clacking grinding noise. The tech's thoughts was that there's a sensor next to the paper out sensor that lets the printer know when it has elevated the feed tray fully, and that was not working right.

I had the printer working by simply removing the paper tray. He ended up fixing it by replacing it: apparently an El Paso, TX company ordered like a dozen of the feed trays in yellow, then never took delivery, so they had spares.

It's interesting. The company is in Las Cruces, about an hour away, this guy is based in our city of Alamogordo and basically does the county region, and their warehouse is in El Paso, Texas, about 2 hours south of Alamogordo.