When my printer has an issue I do the following -
1. Google a repair video on youtube or article and give it a go. Many times
I get another year or so, unless there are broken parts and I can't get
them.
2. Donate the printer to my local pre-school. The kids LOVE taking it apart
and seeing all the pieces inside and how they fit together. At the end of
the day, it goes into the recycling bin.
Good luck!
Mark
On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 4:45 PM, Keith Smith <
techlists@phpcoderusa.com>
wrote:
> 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 <matt@birchwood-abbey.net> 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
>>
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