[Hoary] Laser Printer

David M. Carney carney1979 at gmail.com
Sat Apr 16 14:54:17 UTC 2005


On Sat, 2005-04-16 at 08:40 +1000, Peter Garrett wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 17:56 -0400, David M. Carney wrote:
> > The company I work for is closing it's doors.
> > 
> > That's the bad news. The good news is I picked up a HP LaserJet 4 for
> > $2.00 with a new toner cartridge.
> > 
> > The only ports it has are for a network cable, serial and parallel.
> > 
> > I only have one NIC and it's connected to the cable modem. 
> > 
> > Which of the remaining interfaces would you suggest I use, and what will
> > I need to do to set it up?
> > 
> > Thanks!
> 
> 
> 
> I have a LaserJet 6L (very similar I think), connected to the parallel
> port - it works fine. just use the Gnome printer configuration and
> choose the ljet4 driver abd all should be well.
> 
> 
Hey, that worked fine! 

Only problem now is the thing is FILTHY! Time for a good cleaning. 

The paper sometimes doesn't feed quite right. Would alcohol be good to
clean the rollers?

David

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