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On Fri, 06 Nov 2015 15:54:43 -0500, Michael Black wrote:

> I paid $15 Canadian for my 4P about a decade ago, the only thing wrong
> that I could tell was the cover on the side where the memory upgrade
> goes was missing.  And it might have simply fallen off on the way home.
> 
> It had a low page count when I got it, under 10,000 and maybe closer to
> 5,000.  But the cartridge was a generic replacement.  SInce the
> cartridge didn't last long, but the page count suggested it should have,
> I think they swapped cartridges before dumping it on the Rotary Club
> where I bought it.

I got a 2600n on Freecycle. It was only about a mile from where I live. 
OK, it doesn't talk PCL or PostScript, but it seemed worth it.

Got it home and (as the lady said) it printed monochrome OK but with a 
heavy magenta cast. The transfer belt was a mess. After some dismantling 
to check things, I figured out what was wrong.

- the error message on the panel was simply complaining that the black
  toner cartridge was non-HP. Ignore.
- I had a look at the cartridge status on its built in web server. Total
  pages ever printed - just over 4000. All colour cartridges empty.
  Conclusion: it was running on the original colour cartridges, and the
  black one had been changed (for a non HP one) just once.
- the magenta cast was from the waste toner hopper, which on those HP
  models is inside the toner cartridges and was obviously overflowing.

I got some bargain genuine HP cartridges. One cleaning cycle and all good 
as new. With 4000 pages on the clock! A big solid beast it is.




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          Re: HP split into two Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-11-05 13:00 -0500
            Re: HP split into two "gareth" <no.spam@thank.you.invalid> - 2015-11-05 18:44 +0000
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          Re: HP split into two Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-11-05 21:16 +0000
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                Re: HP split into two Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-11-13 12:58 -0500
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