Re: Imagewriter I ribbon

[et472@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Michael Black)]

Paul Guertin (pg@sff.net) writes:
> On 10 May 2005 14:23:23 GMT, et472@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Michael Black) wrote:
> 
>> I finally moved to a well known brand, an HP 4P, for fifteen dollars,
>> and just last week I bought my second toner cartridge for it.
> 
> I bought an HP 4P a couple weeks ago, but it was $25.
> It works very well, and until I read your post I thought
> it was a great deal... :)
> 
> Paul Guertin
> pg@sff.net

Well mine was missing the panel on the side to access the memory,
and when I noticed it while carrying it home I figured the printer
wouldn't work.  And it didn't, until I realized that maybe I
should shake up the toner, which worked.  It had about 3000 on
the page counter, which has to be really low, though oddly the
toner cartridge was a third party one and given that it only
lasted for about five hundred pages I'd guess someone switched
them before donating it to the Rotary Club.

I am quite pleased with it, in a few more weeks it will be two
years since I got it (and it must be ten years since it
was available new).  You can open up that side panel and
stuff it with memory that nobody wants because it's too low
density.  When I bought it, I did some searching on the RAM
for expansion, at first thinking it might be special to the
printer.  No, though the posts I saw told of wiring the sense
pins on the SIMMs so the printer could recognize them.  The
ones I put in already had those pins set correctly.

    Michael