Ancient LaserJet-3 question

From: Ethan Dicks <ethan_dicks_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Fri Jul 6 09:58:39 2001

--- Mike Ford <mikeford_at_socal.rr.com> wrote:
> Once you do a basic service like that on one of these old workhorses, they
> last for years and many many pages.

The great news about this $15 printer is that the page count from the
Postscript test page is about 6500 (the PCL test page shows 35).

It's a university surplus printer, so either it was tucked away in the
back of a Mac lab (has LocalTalk) or it was recently heavily refurbed.
I know how generous my alma mater is... it was almost certainly ignored
for its entire working life to only have 6500 pages show.

There was a stripped gear in the fuser assy. ($0.87 from printerworks.com)
so perhaps it worked for a while, suffered some user abuse from clearing
paper jams and sat for several years until recently hauled away.

-ethan



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