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

[Herb Singleton]

FYI, I have a Konica Minolta I've been trying to get rid of if you decide you want to stay with color. <https://post.craigslist.org/manage/3261439954>

The printer works fine, although it will need new toner cartridges after a few dozen pages or so. 

That said, with enough digging you can probably find the repair docs on the internet. Depending on how mechanical you are, count on spending the better part of a workday disassembling and reassembling. With paper jams (IME) it usually means that something along the paper path has worn out meaning you'll have to figure out what part has worn out, and then try to find a new/manufactured part.  You might be better off just parting it out and using the money toward another printer.

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> 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