[Hidden-tech] Advice/Repair for Color Laser Printer?

[Tom Kopec]

Ditch it. By the time you pay for a repair and new supplies, you will be 
deeply in the hole.

http://www.goldcircuitecycling.com/ can probably do at least a 
somewhat-eco-friendly recycle of the old unit.

I went through this with my old beloved LaserJet 4MV. Fast and could do 
11x17 (handy for schematics). At some point it just becomes a money pit.

It hurts me to say this.. because my father (81 years old tomorrow) and 
his father before him were very much into keeping things running, and I 
worked my way through college repairing cameras.. But this is not 1977, 
things are not made to be repaired, and the best you can hope for is 
minimizing the environmental damage of pitching things out.

...tom

On 10/24/2012 1:45 PM, David F. Farkas wrote:
>
> I've got a Konica Minolta color laser printer that has been fairly 
> trouble free until recently. Now I'm getting paper feed jams and a 
> piece of paper is now jammed in the fuser.
>
> Anyone have experience with this or know someone who does?
>
> I got this on sale for $200 at least 5 years and it's going to need 
> over $200 of supplies soon... toner and toner drum. So I'm wondering 
> whether I should just get a low end b&w laser printer and let this go. 
> I don't really need in house color. Not very ecologically sound to 
> trash it and the tinker in me wants to fix everything and keep it 
> running... but it's not my area of expertise and it's time consuming.
>
> Suggestions?
>
> Thanx
> dff
>