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Printer Maintenance

Tomorrow, wife and I are going to Barcelona for the weekend, so like many people, I decided to print out my lastminute.com e-ticket and hotel vouchers. Nothing unusual there.

However, the printer started to make some very weird noises, screwed up the paper and eventually completely jammed. I could see bits of paper jammed in the mechanism, but it didn’t look like it was going to be easy to get it out.

Under wifely advice, we unplugged the printer, removed the duplex podule from the back, removed the paper, and I tipped the whole thing up to look for more paper fragments.

To my surprise, a screwdriver fell out the front! Doubly handy, as I was looking for that particular screwdriver the other day :)
Rebuilt, the printer is now working just fine.

Hurrah!

3 Comments

  1. Dom wrote:

    No wander it didn’t work. We’ve not used screwdrivers in printers since the 80’s. Go install a proper modern multitool in it and all will be fine. :-)

    Thursday, February 7, 2008 at 9:19 pm | Permalink
  2. Jack wrote:

    I guess the printer got screwed

    Friday, February 8, 2008 at 10:40 am | Permalink
  3. goron wrote:

    har de har

    Monday, February 11, 2008 at 12:10 am | Permalink

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