Chronicals of… a developer in Johannesburg

Seeing that it is dark when I drive home and there is traffic, I came up with a little “game” or time occupier while driving home in the joy of Midrand to Fourways traffic.

I count the number of cars that have one or more of their lights not working. Either back lights, front lights, or a single fog light.

So far – on average – it works out to 1 per minute! I generally count 30 to 40 on a given trip home.

This is how to fix it. Please comment if I have helped you.

One of my client’s printers is a bit faulty and the HP repair centre couldn’t repair it. So I am going to take it upon myself to follow instructions from another blog on how to clean the laser lenses… updates will follow….

Here is the first update: Found the original blog, and an HP support forum both mentioning the same issue.

The issue is the MAGENTA colour printing faded colours.

HP forum

Reeves-Hall

I put in double links because sometimes the thumbnails don’t generate…

UPDATE:

I opened up the machine I had and fixed the issue. A little bit of dust on the lens and mirror was the culprit.

On the Reeves link, it took the guy quite a while, I managed to get it all done in under two hours. Also, you don’t necessarily need to take off the side panels – I did do it, but one could probably get away without taking them off.

Marking of the cables is important, I just used a fine tipped permanent market to colour the cable corresponding to the positioning. I counted positions 1 to 6, and then made the mark on the relevant cable.

I added the quote from HP’s official repair place. The quote is higher than the price of a new printer. And it was for something that isn’t even broken!

See the pictures below