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lostcarparkI can see why NASA use eBay to look for spare parts for their aging shuttle fleet (and old mainframes and just about anything built out of off the shelf parts).
I have a HP LaserJet 1100 laser printer, which I bought around 1998. The print quality has always been excellent, and the speed reasonable. Its only drawback was that 2MB of memory is a bit stingy for a 600DPI printer, and printing a full page of complex graphics tended to cause it to sit down. I could usually get around this by tweaking the page settings, but every so often I'd have to roll up my sleves and try to seperate the page elements onto two pages and feed the page through twice and hope they'd line up. Not very satisfactory.
On several occasions I'd tried to remedy the situation. The first time, I was quoted an outragous price for a memory upgrade. I can't remember what it was, but I think it was more than I'd paid for the printer. Later on, I got a more reasonable quote, and asked them to order the part, but the lazy sod in the company I was dealing with never got around to placing the order despite me reminding him a couple of times.
I tried again a while later, with a couple of specialist memory companies, but by this stage I was told that the printer was too old and the part was no longer available.
Recently, it occurred to me to try eBay. After a couple of attempts, I found an auction for 16MB memory expansion for the printer. I bid on it and got it for $10. It arrived yesterday, and inside the bubble-wrap was a blue, white and pink HP box. It was clear the box had been resealed, which was a little worrying. I opened it and out popped a antistatic bag containing three DIMMs. Three? I only ordered one.
Closer inspection revealed one was a 32MB DIMM and the other two were 16MB, all stamped with the HP logo. I know the 1100 can only take 16MB, and it only has one memory slot.
Deciding I can't do anything worse than fry my printer, I pick up one of the 16MB cards and slot it into the back of the printer and switch it on. It goes through the usual warm-up cycle, and the normal "on-line" light shows. Encouraging. I press the button to print a test page. After a few seconds it spits out a page, and lo and behold, it reports "18MB RAM". I load up a document with a page that I know gave trouble and ask it to print. It thinks about it for what seems like an age, then out comes a perfect printout.
It seems to be 100% successful so far - and I have two spare 100-pin EDO DIMMs for HP printers. if anyone has any need for one, give me a shout. I don't know what models take the same DIMMs as the 1100, but there must be a few if they went to 32MB DIMMs.
Now I'm just waiting for a new pick-up roller to fix a paper-feeding problem.
I have a HP LaserJet 1100 laser printer, which I bought around 1998. The print quality has always been excellent, and the speed reasonable. Its only drawback was that 2MB of memory is a bit stingy for a 600DPI printer, and printing a full page of complex graphics tended to cause it to sit down. I could usually get around this by tweaking the page settings, but every so often I'd have to roll up my sleves and try to seperate the page elements onto two pages and feed the page through twice and hope they'd line up. Not very satisfactory.
On several occasions I'd tried to remedy the situation. The first time, I was quoted an outragous price for a memory upgrade. I can't remember what it was, but I think it was more than I'd paid for the printer. Later on, I got a more reasonable quote, and asked them to order the part, but the lazy sod in the company I was dealing with never got around to placing the order despite me reminding him a couple of times.
I tried again a while later, with a couple of specialist memory companies, but by this stage I was told that the printer was too old and the part was no longer available.
Recently, it occurred to me to try eBay. After a couple of attempts, I found an auction for 16MB memory expansion for the printer. I bid on it and got it for $10. It arrived yesterday, and inside the bubble-wrap was a blue, white and pink HP box. It was clear the box had been resealed, which was a little worrying. I opened it and out popped a antistatic bag containing three DIMMs. Three? I only ordered one.
Closer inspection revealed one was a 32MB DIMM and the other two were 16MB, all stamped with the HP logo. I know the 1100 can only take 16MB, and it only has one memory slot.
Deciding I can't do anything worse than fry my printer, I pick up one of the 16MB cards and slot it into the back of the printer and switch it on. It goes through the usual warm-up cycle, and the normal "on-line" light shows. Encouraging. I press the button to print a test page. After a few seconds it spits out a page, and lo and behold, it reports "18MB RAM". I load up a document with a page that I know gave trouble and ask it to print. It thinks about it for what seems like an age, then out comes a perfect printout.
It seems to be 100% successful so far - and I have two spare 100-pin EDO DIMMs for HP printers. if anyone has any need for one, give me a shout. I don't know what models take the same DIMMs as the 1100, but there must be a few if they went to 32MB DIMMs.
Now I'm just waiting for a new pick-up roller to fix a paper-feeding problem.
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Date: 2005-01-26 08:32 am (UTC)By any chance will you be in the London area when I'm over around the 15th and 16th?
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Date: 2005-01-26 08:45 am (UTC)And thank you!
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Date: 2005-01-26 08:53 am (UTC)Off topic ...
Date: 2005-01-27 09:30 am (UTC)I saw your username in
You clearly have excellent taste!