Homebrew PCBs

On Fri, 8 Jan 2010 18:28:28 +0100, Stefan Trethan <stefan_trethan@...>
wrote:

> Off-brand cartridges never worked for me, but the stripe could be bad,
> maybe something on the mirror/laser assembly?
> Try taking the cartridge out and shake it to spread the toner evenly
> over the width, then print a couple of pages all black.

I've shaken, rattled, and rolled those cartridges to within an inch of
their lives!  I'll give it one more go before giving up.

> I also buy toner on ebay, with a little patience I've always found
> genuine brand toner well below the normal price. This comes from
> people who don't have the printer any more and stuff like that, expiry
> date doesn't seem to matter but brand does.

New 27X cartridges are around $125, and new 27A cartridges are about $100. 
The 27X goes for 50-60 on eBay with free shipping for an official HP one,
but if I still have other problems I'm just throwing good money after bad. 
This was intended to be a cheap purchase... :-)

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Brian Lalor
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