When I bought my last printer 8 years ago the sales guy said they were manufactured to last 2 years. I'm sure they want you to buy a new printer every couple years...... They have become so cheap they are almost throw aways. On 2016-01-05 16:36, Steve Litt wrote: > On Mon, 4 Jan 2016 16:13:35 -0700 > Matt Birkholz wrote: > >> Anyone care to recommend a (Lexmark) laserjet repair shop? Does >> anyone DO that anymore? How much would you spend to repair a $540 >> (now $400!) 5 year old color laserjet? >> >> Y'all are laughing, aren't you? I took a 10 year old flat screen to >> the Geek Squad recently. It did not exist in their database(?). I >> think THEY were laughing as I dragged it back out of the store. > > My experience with printer repair facilities, at least since the > 1990's, has been it's like bringing your printer to Dr. Kavorkian. Oh, > they'll fix the symptom you brought it in with (maybe), but three > months later it will be dead for some other reason. > > For me, once a printer is out of warranty, I look for a repair video on > Youtube, and attempt it myself. Yeah, I might totally break the > printer, but printer repair shops seem to break it every time, usually > with just enough of an "incubation period" so as not to be responsible > for their repair warranty. > > SteveT > > Steve Litt > January 2016 featured book: Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting > http://www.troubleshooters.com/28 > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- Keith Smith --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss