[geeks] WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT OVER

[Arno Kletzander]

On Fri, 11 May 2007 17:32:06 -0400, "Aaron Finley" <aaronfinley at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/11/07, Phil Stracchino <phil.stracchino at speakeasy.net> wrote:
> > Exactly 69 pages ago, a configuration page printed off the LJ4500 
> > showed transfer kit at 49%, fuser at 60%, drum at 46%.  Today, it 
> > jammed on an envelope.  After clearing the jam, suddenly it's 
> > reporting the transfer kit at 5%.
>
> It's only a counter, not a sensor, so just pull it out and put it back
> in again. You'll feel great when it reads 100%.

Which is not what I suppose to happen. It's just a counter allright, but the counter AFAIK is not stored anywhere in the printer and reset when changing the kit, it is in an E(E)PROM aboard the kit and will be reset when the kit is reworked in the factory (if they do that at all). ISTR people selling preprogrammed replacement chips on e**y to get some more life out of an old transfer kit.

So long,

-- 
Arno Kletzander
Stud. Hilfskraft Informatik Sammlung Erlangen
www.iser.uni-erlangen.de

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