TW> The only thing that I recall is that periodic Cleaning
TW> extends the time in between troubles.
 
> Not sure what type of "cleaning" Tom refers to
> but for the HPs I am familiar with the only
> cleaning is to print a combo test page and
> cleaning page and then run that page back through
> print side up to attract loose toner particles
> and avoid smudging. :-)
 
> I forget right now what two buttons you push to
> get that page though. :-\
 
 
 Sorry. Not enough
 
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 in me yet to follow that.
 
 Are you saying there's not much or any
 maintenance required?
 
 What I do on the dot matrix machines is vacuum
 the amazing amount of dust and bits of paper they
 collect, oil the main bar, and get the crud off
 the print head, plus occaisionally clean it by
 soaking in methol alcohol.
 
 Dust is the big thing.
 
 I think -- after nothing blew up or stopped
 functioning when people stopped doing =any=
 maintenance on computer equipment -- that all
 those early warnings were quickly forgotten.
 Some of the donations we get are
 indistinguishable from giant dust bunnies.
 
 At any rate, what I was fishing for was a general
 picture from anyone who may have switched to
 laser and found that they were spending twice or
 three times as much time tinkering with it than
 with whatever type printer they had before.
 Glad to see that that's not necessarily the case.
 
 

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