On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 16:26 -0700, Jim Cunning wrote:
Today at 4:05pm, Preston Crawford wrote:
On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 18:57 -0400, Ken Schneider wrote:
On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 15:44 -0700, Preston Crawford wrote:
Can this be done somewhere? Our Deskjet 990cxi is acting weird lately. It's so good and has been so trusty (and I don't know anything cheap and comparable that works with Linux out of the box) that I'm hesitant to just throw it away and get a new printer. However, I want it to work correctly. Do you know where you can (if you can) get something like this worked on these days? [...] Cheap ink jet printers have become a throwaway commodity. It costs far more to get them repaired then to buy a new one.
You don't describe "acting weird," but, if you're really attached to this
Acting weird as in sometimes the paper takes forever to load up. Sometimes it gets stuck. So it's definitely mechanical as nothing has changed, software-wise, as far as I know.
printer and you just think think the rollers are a little dirty, you should be able to clean it yourself. I have cleaned the rollers on my inkjet printers periodically with isopropyl alcohol and a cotton swab. I've never had any problems with that procedure, even though the HP manuals say not to clean anything but the cartridge and carrier.
Do you just take them out? Is it easy without breaking the printer? I put computers together myself and stuff, but never done anything like this before. Preston