[lug] question on fading color on laser printer...

[Bear Giles]

HP. Q6000A - Q6003A


On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 8:25 PM, Tom Martin <toms_jeep at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Bear,
> Are those HP cartridges or compatible (or refills)?
>
> Tom
>
>    *From:* Bear Giles <bgiles at coyotesong.com>
> *To:* Boulder (Colorado) Linux Users Group -- General Mailing List <
> lug at lug.boulder.co.us>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, July 30, 2013 6:12 PM
> *Subject:* [lug] question on fading color on laser printer...
>
>  A question for the hardware types - I have an HP Color Laserjet 1600 (so
> it's 5? years old) and it looks like it's losing magenta. I just put in a
> new cartridge but the supplies page still shows it fading to the left and
> all prints look off. I've shaken the cartridge, hit the printer with
> compressed air, etc. No joy.
>
> Any ideas? E.g., is it probably something in the printer fading, e.g., a
> heating or electrostatic element? Or is it something that should be easy to
> fix?
>
> If the printer is dying is anyone interested in buying some HP
> 1600/2600/3600 cartridges?  The magenta is new, the black cartridge is at
> 80%, and the other two cartridges are around 50%. I already had a new
> printer in mind but the cartridges are incompatible.
>
> Bear
>
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