Gee! You must have seen this a time or two, Tony. I started out with one
LJ-III that was making a bit of noise, emanating from the upper right rear
region of the printer where a rubber nipple apparently involved in paper
transport protrudes into the accessible innards. I bought the two other
LJ-III's on the off chance that one or the other would have the necessary parts
to make the noise go away. The off-chance that one or the other of these could
be induced to work was of interest as well.
I paid $4 each for these printers, so there's no great loss if they don't work
out. (The toner cartridges weigh nearly what a full one weighs, if that's any
indication.) Unfortunately, they lack paper trays.
The cost of the various repair kits, combined with the somewhat evasive
information offered along with them, and the restocking charges associated with
them, in case they don't help, make it unattractive simply to repair these
printers. I remember paying $300+ for a logic board when I plugged the printer
cable into a PAL programmer board on the back of a utility machine ... which I
only did once, by the way, but to TWO printers, and these printers apparently
have good logic boards. My understanding is that this fuser/AC PSU problem is
one of the more common failure modes, though. Hopefully I can get at least one
of these two "parts" printers running.
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Duell" <ard_at_p850ug1.demon.co.uk>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 2:22 PM
Subject: Re: Ancient LaserJet-3 question
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Received on Thu Jul 05 2001 - 18:23:45 BST