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Hello Phil - 

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. :-\ 

PM> Are you saying there's not much or any maintenance required? 

I would say "not much" if at all. 

PM> What I do on the dot matrix machines is vacuum the amazing
PM> amount of dust and bits of paper they collect, oil the main
PM> bar, and get the crud off the print head, plus
PM> occaisionally clean it by soaking in methol alcohol. 

If you are careless when putting the toner cartridge into the
machine and dump the toner _into_ the machine you've got a
problem. Otherwise routine maintenance was just to run the test
page through to remove random loose toner particles. 

PM> Dust is the big thing. I think -- after nothing blew up or
PM> stopped functioning when people stopped doing =any=
PM> maintenance on computer equipment -- that all those early
PM> warnings were quickly forgotten. Some of the donations we
PM> get are indistinguishable from giant dust bunnies. 

Cheap carpeting and lots of vacuuming of same in the room where
the printer is would account for much of that. ;-) 

PM> At any rate, what I was fishing for was a general picture
PM> from anyone who may have switched to laser and found that
PM> they were spending twice or three times as much time
PM> tinkering with it than with whatever type printer they had
PM> before. 

PM> Glad to see that that's not necessarily the case. 

My experiences were that the laser seldom required any special
maintanence and only occasionally would jam a page and require
that I pull that out of it. Not often but it did jam once in
awhile. 

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