What model is the canon? I have some ink for a dead canon i used to have.
If the paper is smudging then there is something mechanical, like a scrap of paper that is causing it. It must be after the transfer section and before the paper reaches the fuser unit, should not be too hard to find.
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It uses PG-210 (XL) and PG-211 (XL) cartridges.
Although in the end, I’m going to need a new printer.
Possibly - I did look inside but didn’t see any. There have been other quality issues too. It’s around 14 years old and was only around 100 CHF (plus whatever I spent on toner cartridges) so it’s probably due for retirement anyway.
Sorry. Mine won’t work then.
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Separate or integrated corona‘s and define smudging.
Just because it is old doesn’t mean it needs replacing.
For instance a Konica chassis and print engine from 2002 has a ,say, four year run before the next best swanky oh-my-god-how-awesome singing, dancing version comes along.
A few years later your Konica will return with a Oki label and sold as the Printer to end all printers.
You can pick up a print engine with standard software for 10€ a pop from the factory, 15€ if you want a designer shell.
Toner comes in 3 versions, 10 microns, 7 microns and 4 microns depending on the optical resolution of the printer and is sold in Liters as it acts like a liquid.
Manufacturers and these toner refill ships buy in bulk from the same source by the way. Benny Landa‘s nanographic printing uses 2 micron and smaller toner as does Xicon‘s so called „liquid toner“ printers.
The money is in the chips for the toner bottles, so if you have access to the chips then the price for polymers toner is very cheap indeed.
Older ones had no chips, so you could re-fill. Most people would never use a laser printer so much that the drum needs replacing.
And inkjets are a total scam:
Ink is outrageously expensive and the ink heads can dry out. Sometimes, the printers regularly purge the print head to prevent drying ink, but some have complained that they use the printer so irregularly that even the regular ink purging can use up substantial amounts of ink.
It does. Thing is the particles for printer ink are somewhere between 50 and 250 nanometers and get shot out in the heads in the pico liter range by piezo crystals. The ink has to be carefully formulated to fit the printheads, that is actually one of the reasons printer ink is so expensive and why cheap third party ink will ruin your inkjet.
One of my esteemed colleagues hit on the brilliant idea to clean top of the range 1000 Euro a pop print heads in an ultrasound cleaner, which promptly turned the crystals into dust.
I have the 1612W. Its great. I got so pissed off buying over expensive ink for my old printer.
I wouldn’t call duplex printing a novelty and to create it with a mono printer you need to remember to put the one-sided sheets both the right way round and the right surface up - depending on the printer.
Colour printing isn’t a novelty either.
Photo-printing isn’t a novelty either - especially if you’ve got school-age kids who always seem to need photos for wall displays.
Not sure what novelty features any printer would have?
The scanner came just in time! Today, I received over 50 pages from the tax authorities. It looks like they made a mistake some years ago and now had to re-work all the calculations for the past few years.
They are basically unchanged since the seventies. Cheaper, faster, plastic-er, I still have a stock of spares from the nineties that will fit into a printer bought yesterday.
You take a xerox patent from 1932, itself a development from electrostatic printing patented in 1903. Stick a mirror on a Galvanometer developed in 1820, hit it with a laser right out of 1960, do some clever stuff in binary and- bingo- a laser printer.
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Are you sure you shouldn’t have ordered a shredder instead!
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Now that’s a great idea! A combined scanner and shredder.
Probably. I noticed a couple of errors on the new tax returns they sent and so it looks like they’ll be sending me another 50 pages soon…
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Either this thing is going to change my life or I’m developing another unhealthy obsession.
I just spent 3 hours scanning over 170 documents. I can see my desk for the first time in years!
Be careful and don’t succumb to Scanitis.
You need to stop when you start scanning objects.
Some years ago I sold a big A3 flatbed repo scanner. Installed it, integrated it and taught them how to use it.
Three days later I get the call that it had exploded. I grabbed all the skates and drove overnight to a scanner where the glass had, well, exploded. There was glass everywhere, it took me the best part of the day to fix and set up.
I did a test scan,
It saves the last scan as a thumbnail, the last thing this poor scanner saw was the operators HeeHaw sucked onto the glass like a car window Garfield.
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Those cartridges seem to be available in the USA. Not sure about the tariff situation.
One trick with infrequent use is to take the cartridges out and cover the head with cling film. A quick wipe with alcohol is a easy way to clean up or possible unclog a head -also a good way to clean an electrical connection pad.
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