[LUAU] Laserjet 1000 help -- mechanical, not OSS

[Brian Chee]

Repairing lasers is kinda like taking apart a spring wound clock and putting
it back together again....if you're methodical you can do it...but the odds
are against you. The "simple" fixes that should be in the realm of reality
for anyone failry handy would be:

- changing the fuser assembly
- changing the charge wire
- adding ram
- swapping motherboard

after that the amount of disassembly goes WAY up....and the newer lasers are
progressively harder to fix. The old LaserJet II/III/4 are pretty easy,
after that good luck.

/brian chee

University of Hawaii ICS Dept
Advanced Network Computing Lab
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Honolulu, HI  96822
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Karen Lofstrom" <lofstrom at lava.net>
To: "Linux/Unix Advocates/Users Hawaiian community discussion list"
<luau at lists.hosef.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 10:01 PM
Subject: Re: [LUAU] Laserjet 1000 help -- mechanical, not OSS


>
> On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, Robert Green wrote:
>
> > Are repair parts available for this? I'm fairly handy with my hands and
> > can probably handle it if it isn't going to be some sring-loaded
> > explosion of parts all over the workbench if I don't recite some secret
> > HP voodoo chant =-), but I might need some general instructions to get
> > over the hump...
>
> Do you have a junk printer that you can take to pieces to see how it works
> before you disassemble the working one? You might be able to cannibalize
> parts from a junk printer to fix the working one after you see how it all
> fits together. As I recall, the mechanical parts aren't that complicated.
>
> However, if you don't have the time or energy to learn how to fix
> printers or to figure out how to order replacement parts, it might make
> sense to hire someone to fix it :)
>
> -- 
> Karen Lofstrom
>
> *Taught how to fix printers at HCC, but I haven't had much practice*
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