I used to service these. Toner should not spill out of the cart. You probably bought a refilled cart. Most companies that refill them don't do a very good job. Bearings that are worn and other worn parts are not replaced so they usually leak. Also, they don't replace drums and you often get artifacts that run down the page. In this case, the bad cart probably leaked toner in the printer and fogged up the mirror or lens the laser comes through.
somebody once gave me five of these printers. The problem is that the cork pad has glazed over so the roller can't separate the pages. You can get the cork pad with the plastic backing for 4 bucks including shipping. I fixed all of mine except for one because it had other problems. It was actually a good solid printer once the pad was changed. In fact, I might still have the pad that I didn't use and I could mail it to you for free if you want it. By the way, I had a similar problem with hp toner. i think the problem is that any genuine toner for a printer that old is probably no good. There might be issues with the surface of the roller inside of the toner. Try shaking the toner really hard or try to wipe off the roller with a lint free cloth. It worked for me.
The new cartridge was probably also bad. Based on the label it was from the early-mid 2000s. The rubber flap that cleans the drum degrades in storage, and causes printouts like what you showed. A brand new cartridge from 2004 I bought for my 4P came out the same way. But I digress.
"Oh, it's melting, it's melting!" I laughed so hard I had tears in my eyes through the entire video. Great stuff. Probably the best thing I've watched on UA-cam in a *long* time!
My brother had an HP Officejet that was bad for taking in multiple pages, and jamming. He replaced it with an Epson that drank ink like an alcoholic does cheap booze!
Yep, some of the Epson printers are pretty cheap, that is until you go to buy replacement ink cartridges. I made that mistake, I now have an Epson XP-630 paperweight, printer was about $50 ink is over $100, so the printer will never be used again. I do have an Epson Ecotank printer as well but if you don't use it just about every day the nozzles get clogged with ink and you have to run a nozzle cleaning cycle, or usually several cleaning cycles and of course wasting a bunch of ink in the process. I have an old Brother HL-1440 laserjet printer that's been abused and it still keeps on printing. I buy toner refills for it and just dump in the toner cartridge. Works just fine. I have an HP Photosmart C7200 as well and it works great since I can get aftermarket ink cartridges for like $20 a set its pretty descent, and it does great printing photos. The Epson XP-630 does great with photos as well but with the ink prices it'll never be used for anything again and probably will throw it in the trash here soon and get it out of my way. The Epson Ecotank printers don't print borderless photos at all...you'd think a $500 printer would print photos, nope. Looking at one of the Canon Megatank printers now to use as a dedicated borderless photo printer.
Had some "friend" printing transparent sheet on a laser printer 2 years ago......... well, result was me tearing this thing apart and cleaning the hot barrel. it was compleetly plastic molded. after putting everything back together, i had 10 screws, a gear, 2 springs and a speaker.. no idea where it came from, but it still works today :D
Ah, the 6L. This was the printer that I used throughout my early childhood to print Paint drawings from Windows 98 and those test pages. I too had that problem with the paper feeding multiple pages. I loved it...
You shouldnt use a vac to clean up toner - I've seen an intern do that and some is flamable fine powder dust...not going to comment on what happened but he learned not to do that again. Also if your filter has any holes you'll find out really quick! Haha. Had a beastly HP Laser Jet 4 forever and it never quit working. Just liked blowing fuses since it started to draw so much power. Also OMG that sound!!! HAHAHA
I was given a 6L about 10 years ago together with two packs of new toner. Since it was the only printer I had, I printed my school leaving project documentation on this. I spent a whole afternoon with printing 40 pages correctly, and ended up using about 100 pages for it, because some pages jammed, some were grabbed a bit late, so the text was about a centimeter higher than it was supposed to be, and of course that was unacceptable. Shortly after that I throwed it out, but I left the old HP print server I used to interface it with my iBook G4 and PowerMac G4 MDD since they didn't have a parallel port... I got that print server without a power supply for about 0,20€ in a second hand PC shop :)
HOLY CRAP! Was this something you read about in the C.I.A. field manual describing the preferred "Enhanced interrogation" methods to use on any confiscated office printers? LOL!! I was hoping you were going to try a piece of that self destructing message paper used to pass messages from headquarters to Maxwell Smart on the T.V. show "Get Smart"!
I used to have one of these hateful excuses for a printer! This video waa very therapeutic and has helped me overcome the trauma. I cant remember what I did with mine, but i suspect it was along the lines of that scene in Office Space!
While I was at college, I remember odd printer being wrecked by students trying to print on inkjet transparencies, which melted inside the printer. Of course there was even the odd student that tried multiple printers before realising why the printers kept breaking down! Some of those old printers ran quite hot as I remember one lab had a Lexmark that regularly jammed that scorched the scrunched up paper, so I could just imagine the mess a plastic transparency would have caused.
I had a front loading printer that would also pull two sheets at a time, I found that if you blow on the side of the paper to spread the sheets apart and then load it it doesn't happen as often.
God, I had that printer. It has all the problems you suggest. I remember one day printing out over a thousand pages, and having to feed it one page at a time. Man that was quite a day.
When those POS printers are working properly they actually have very nice output. I recall that they also used a non standard printer cable... with a small clip on connector at the printer end.
The 4L will likely still be running 20 years from now. Those Canon PX engine printers are tanks. There was a repair kit for the LJ 5L/6L/3100 that added a foam insert at the bottom of the paper tray to aid with separating pages. It fixed the problem for the most part. Occasionally there was a double page feed or two. They also appear to have released a revised pad separation kit to rebuild units, but these POSes aren't worth fixing anymore.
+NJRoadfan I've got a 5l for regular use and I got a new toner for it and is going well, I'm not going to do anything major though and I just feed in pages one by one. They seem reliable otherwise.
I had the (dis)pleasure of working on one of these printers while working in my high school's IT department last summer. Someone brought it in from home and said they had found it in storage and wanted to see if it could be revived. We were only able to get it to the point of "working when it feels like it" before we called it a lost cause. I seem to recall that it was having issues with ghosting in addition to grabbing multiple sheets of paper. I had made a video at one point where I did an overview of my LaserJet 4P (which, unlike some of its successors, is highly reliable), and since I felt like doing something silly and random, I sent a sheet of loose leaf paper through the manual feed slot asking that same question of "Is it a good idea to print on this?" It actually worked just fine, though it was indeed highly pointless. Unfortunately, that video ended up not coming out the way I wanted it to, so I ended up not uploading it. I really should get a video about that printer up on here, though...
Thanks for the fun experiments; I actually thought the sandpaper might conceivably improve the uneven print quality. 😁 Amazing how poor-quality these 6Ls were, though I find it difficult to see how a class-action lawsuit could succeed unless they could prove HP intentionally put out faulty product. The 4L is certainly a smart choice for a replacement; those things were real workhorses. Oh, and thank you for the nice WQXR soundtrack - always interesting to hear what classical radio stations in other parts of the country are playing (that string quartet was great).
I recently got a 5L for regular use and so far it has done me very very well! I've just had to get a new toner but I've also had an issue with the paper pulling thing, simply put pages in one by one and you have no issues, it looks very clear and I've got no issues with my toner spilling when upside down, although it is a generic toner and they may have done something different to fix that.
lol well if you're gonna send it to be recycled, might as well have some fun with it eh? lol... haha, the melted binder cover; I didn't think it got quite that hot! My high school had an HP laser jet printer in the computer lab, and it made the same exact noise... funny how certain noises like that can bring back memories lol. It was a different model though. Also, I hope you didn't ruin any of your favourite clothes when you spilled the toner.
I took apart an old toner cart before. It's extremely messy, can get all over your hands, and it's pretty hydrophobic. The toner powder can make for some pretty good ferro-fluid and the tube looks like it could be a baton to a relay race.
even your vacuum is from the 90s.. btw, we used to own this printer and have the same problem (the printer takes in more than 1 piece of paper at once).
+Firdaus Fauzi That's a Hoover Constellation. Those were introduced in the 1950s and sold into the '70s. Production of those machines ended way before the '90s.
+Firdaus Fauzi Never get rid of a good thing, because not all so called progress is desired! All the vacuums we have owned since the few Hoover models we had, have been rubbish. I would maybe look at a Sebo next as they seem sturdy, reliable and well regarded.
The other problem that I always found with these upright models is that if you left the paper in the feed tray for any length of time, it would fold over and be permanently bent badly. HP continued this line into the Laserjet 1100. Not sure whether it had the same problems with feed, but I know it had problems with the paper bending...
I've had this very printer for YEARS! got it for absolutely nothing from my school. I had to order a free roll replacement kit to solve the multipage take-up issue, but afterwards, everything worked quite perfectly. I never had this print quality issue you showed in your video, but, like you, I do think this is a fuser problem. The toner just doesn't want to stick to the material you use to print upon. Anyways, at the end of its lifespan, mine had printed more than 23k pages, across both "owners" (being the IT dept of my school and then myself. I technically didn't buy it, so I couldn't have gone wrong with it, anyway. But it served me well enough. The only real downside to it in my opinion was that it didn't feature a duplexer, so I had to manually flip the stack over if I'd ever want to print double-sided. Ah, well... I guess I was one of the luckier owners of one of these...
I actually have that exact printer as our main printer. It works fine most of the time, but as soon as there are less than 5 pages in the feeder it starts acting up. I picked this printer out of the trash at my former workplace, and even put a fresh toner in it. The print quality is as good as if it is a new printer, it only lacks a bit of memory when printing large images. but since we only use it to print regular documents occasionally, its adequate for our needs. On the side you´ll find a memory expansion slot behind the lower part of the housing. Can´t remember which side though, but it has the option. :)
+MrDubje I have a 5L as my main printer and yes my machine has a parallel port, it's from 2008 at a time when parallel ports started to go from machines. They're fine printers it seems, just chuck in a new toner and feed pages in one by one and they're fine. Unless you want to get that paper feeding repair thing from HP but I wouldn't really bother.
I am just an average, Joe Q citizen sitting on my ash watching YT videos, and even I can see this is a horribly designed printer. Makes you wonder just how inept some engineers are.
Actually I got one of these free a couple of days ago. It was pulling in the whole pile of paper at a time but I fixed it by cleaning the paper pulling mechanism with a wet cloth. Since then I have printed close to 1000 pages on it and it still works fine.
I am fortunate to have never had a laser printer behave that way without a good reason(I.E. low toner - 3/4 of my laser printers came to me that way, but the fix was obvious and easy); however, I did have an inkjet a few years ago that had constant problems with its printhead. I probably would have run sandpaper through that one had I been given the chance to do so.
Laserjet 4L? Hey, I have one of those attached to this computer! Awesome tank. And it works perfectly. Only thing wrong is one of the tabs on the door for the parallel cable snapped off because it was dropped (not by me). But some super glue fixed that. It is from 1992, so 24 year old plastic tends to be brittle. I also have another toner for it new in the box (got it for free with the printer), though with the frequency I print, I'll never need it. I also have a modern wireless inkjet all in one, but if I only need B&W, the old 4L works a treat. And I can make it wireless, as this Optiplex 745 has a wireless card, and I have the 4L shared on my network. Should have kept the 4L. I would love to get me one of the full size LaserJet 4 models, as I remember them from high school (mid 2000s), and they still worked after 10 years. plus the vacuum fluorescent displays they have are just cool.
I got lucky enough to find an HP laserjet 1320 at a thrift store. It has both USB and parallel and has great print quality. Requires a universal driver to work on Windows 7 but works perfect on El Capitan.
Interesting. The cause would be different but the result looks like an issue I had with my current Lexmark color laser when I first bought it. In my case it turned out to be a broken piece off one of the shipping parts that had staid in it's tiny slot. Must have been some kind of switch in that small hole. Lexmark had to send a technician out and even he had trouble finding the issue.
Yes, if you tip up a toner cartridge after you have opened it it toner will fall out, the fuser or drum or whatever you want to call it, is considered a consumable on laser printer, and cost a lot of money, so you need to be prepared to buy them now and again, that's why they aren't the best for home users.
Like a moron I kept buying HP laser printers for over 12 years. They only lasted less than 2 years each some even less than that. I even bought this one used back in 1999! The 6l and had the same trouble of pulling all the paper. In 2012 we got a Brother laser printer and it has really been the very best laser printer we have ever had. Its been the most reliable and the most inexpensive to operate I saw that brand back in the late 90's and scoffed at a sewing machine company making laser printers. I scoff at my idiot self now. Crow doesn't taste all that good
This was pretty much the best video I could have hoped to watch after staying up way too late playing video games and eating Oreo Thins. (I had six of them...) I never cared much for HP printers after I got my Windows 7 computer and the HP DeskJet that our family bought in the late 90s wouldn't work with it. Pretty silly, considering I'm still using a Brother HL-1440 laser printer from 1997 or so on my Windows 10 computer, even with the official drivers. Now THAT's product support.
+Sidney Rutledge You just need a parallel to USB adapter to use that printer, but I also have a HL-1440 in storage, they're from the early 00's not the late 90's, it seems to be they're from the early 00's anyway. It's done about 20,000 pages now.
Sony Trinitron It's possible, although I think it must be a little earlier seeing as though there are Windows 3.1 drivers available. Also, the printer has USB support, which came around in about 1996 or 7, although I can't recall exactly.
Same thing happened to my last 3 printers. Piece of crap just gives up printing properly after a year. Luckily I've had great luck with this canon! 3 years and still running like a champ
+vwestlife I have seen on your videos that you have never bought a new computer. Just curious, but what is the most expensive computer you have ever bought?
Certainly much slower than my Dell laser printer 1700, but that has a problem where it cant take paper from the tray. other than that, its printed in about 5 seconds.
I used to service these. Toner should not spill out of the cart. You probably bought a refilled cart. Most companies that refill them don't do a very good job. Bearings that are worn and other worn parts are not replaced so they usually leak. Also, they don't replace drums and you often get artifacts that run down the page.
In this case, the bad cart probably leaked toner in the printer and fogged up the mirror or lens the laser comes through.
If this happens again, I propose using a Fruit Roll-Up as the grand finale. Consider it a "last meal" of sorts for the printer.
VWestlife to Walmart employee:"Hi I would like some thick foil for my printer"
somebody once gave me five of these printers. The problem is that the cork pad has glazed over so the roller can't separate the pages. You can get the cork pad with the plastic backing for 4 bucks including shipping. I fixed all of mine except for one because it had other problems. It was actually a good solid printer once the pad was changed. In fact, I might still have the pad that I didn't use and I could mail it to you for free if you want it.
By the way, I had a similar problem with hp toner. i think the problem is that any genuine toner for a printer that old is probably no good. There might be issues with the surface of the roller inside of the toner. Try shaking the toner really hard or try to wipe off the roller with a lint free cloth. It worked for me.
The new cartridge was probably also bad. Based on the label it was from the early-mid 2000s. The rubber flap that cleans the drum degrades in storage, and causes printouts like what you showed. A brand new cartridge from 2004 I bought for my 4P came out the same way. But I digress.
"Oh, it's melting, it's melting!"
I laughed so hard I had tears in my eyes through the entire video. Great stuff. Probably the best thing I've watched on UA-cam in a *long* time!
Same here ha ha ha
+uxwbill I am not at all surprised by your response.
Michael Butler Trying to print on a 5 inch floppy disk. xD
uxwbill I dont understand what's funny?
same
My brother had an HP Officejet that was bad for taking in multiple pages, and jamming. He replaced it with an Epson that drank ink like an alcoholic does cheap booze!
Yep, some of the Epson printers are pretty cheap, that is until you go to buy replacement ink cartridges. I made that mistake, I now have an Epson XP-630 paperweight, printer was about $50 ink is over $100, so the printer will never be used again. I do have an Epson Ecotank printer as well but if you don't use it just about every day the nozzles get clogged with ink and you have to run a nozzle cleaning cycle, or usually several cleaning cycles and of course wasting a bunch of ink in the process.
I have an old Brother HL-1440 laserjet printer that's been abused and it still keeps on printing. I buy toner refills for it and just dump in the toner cartridge. Works just fine. I have an HP Photosmart C7200 as well and it works great since I can get aftermarket ink cartridges for like $20 a set its pretty descent, and it does great printing photos. The Epson XP-630 does great with photos as well but with the ink prices it'll never be used for anything again and probably will throw it in the trash here soon and get it out of my way. The Epson Ecotank printers don't print borderless photos at all...you'd think a $500 printer would print photos, nope. Looking at one of the Canon Megatank printers now to use as a dedicated borderless photo printer.
Had some "friend" printing transparent sheet on a laser printer 2 years ago.........
well, result was me tearing this thing apart and cleaning the hot barrel. it was compleetly plastic molded. after putting everything back together, i had 10 screws, a gear, 2 springs and a speaker.. no idea where it came from, but it still works today :D
Yep, you have to buy special transparency sheets for copiers and laserjet printers otherwise they sorta melt LOL.
My first thought when I saw the clear plastic was - I didn't know HP made a laminator ?"
I laughed out loud when the foil started to disappear into the printer. Made my day. Thanks.
Ah, the 6L. This was the printer that I used throughout my early childhood to print Paint drawings from Windows 98 and those test pages. I too had that problem with the paper feeding multiple pages. I loved it...
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Funny, I don't see sandpaper and aluminum foil on the media list in the page setup window. Maybe I should submit a feature request.
You shouldnt use a vac to clean up toner - I've seen an intern do that and some is flamable fine powder dust...not going to comment on what happened but he learned not to do that again. Also if your filter has any holes you'll find out really quick! Haha. Had a beastly HP Laser Jet 4 forever and it never quit working. Just liked blowing fuses since it started to draw so much power.
Also OMG that sound!!! HAHAHA
I love the throwback to "Is it a good idea the microwave this?". I loved that show when it was around.
When you said "come on" around 8:50, I started to imagine a guy in the office putting random shit through the printer.
I was given a 6L about 10 years ago together with two packs of new toner. Since it was the only printer I had, I printed my school leaving project documentation on this. I spent a whole afternoon with printing 40 pages correctly, and ended up using about 100 pages for it, because some pages jammed, some were grabbed a bit late, so the text was about a centimeter higher than it was supposed to be, and of course that was unacceptable. Shortly after that I throwed it out, but I left the old HP print server I used to interface it with my iBook G4 and PowerMac G4 MDD since they didn't have a parallel port... I got that print server without a power supply for about 0,20€ in a second hand PC shop :)
These are the kind of shenanigans I love to watch, great video.
One of the best things in life: toturing a printer after it tortured you for years.
HOLY CRAP! Was this something you read about in the C.I.A. field manual describing the preferred "Enhanced interrogation" methods to use on any confiscated office printers? LOL!! I was hoping you were going to try a piece of that self destructing message paper used to pass messages from headquarters to Maxwell Smart on the T.V. show "Get Smart"!
I had this exact same POS years back. Thing worked 5% of the time at best
I used to have one of these hateful excuses for a printer! This video waa very therapeutic and has helped me overcome the trauma. I cant remember what I did with mine, but i suspect it was along the lines of that scene in Office Space!
While I was at college, I remember odd printer being wrecked by students trying to print on inkjet transparencies, which melted inside the printer. Of course there was even the odd student that tried multiple printers before realising why the printers kept breaking down! Some of those old printers ran quite hot as I remember one lab had a Lexmark that regularly jammed that scorched the scrunched up paper, so I could just imagine the mess a plastic transparency would have caused.
During a work trial at an office supplies comany we had a photocopier with a melted transparecy inside and we had to trash the whole thing, no joke.
I had a front loading printer that would also pull two sheets at a time, I found that if you blow on the side of the paper to spread the sheets apart and then load it it doesn't happen as often.
God, I had that printer. It has all the problems you suggest. I remember one day printing out over a thousand pages, and having to feed it one page at a time. Man that was quite a day.
8:12 "These are NOT meant to be printed on." Frankly, I don't think any of the stuff you fed through that printer was.
When those POS printers are working properly they actually have very nice output. I recall that they also used a non standard printer cable... with a small clip on connector at the printer end.
Non-standard? I believe it uses a standard Centronics cable.
I remember those printers in high school, they had that same problem even when they were brand new.
The 4L will likely still be running 20 years from now. Those Canon PX engine printers are tanks. There was a repair kit for the LJ 5L/6L/3100 that added a foam insert at the bottom of the paper tray to aid with separating pages. It fixed the problem for the most part. Occasionally there was a double page feed or two. They also appear to have released a revised pad separation kit to rebuild units, but these POSes aren't worth fixing anymore.
+NJRoadfan I've got a 5l for regular use and I got a new toner for it and is going well, I'm not going to do anything major though and I just feed in pages one by one. They seem reliable otherwise.
I had the (dis)pleasure of working on one of these printers while working in my high school's IT department last summer. Someone brought it in from home and said they had found it in storage and wanted to see if it could be revived. We were only able to get it to the point of "working when it feels like it" before we called it a lost cause. I seem to recall that it was having issues with ghosting in addition to grabbing multiple sheets of paper.
I had made a video at one point where I did an overview of my LaserJet 4P (which, unlike some of its successors, is highly reliable), and since I felt like doing something silly and random, I sent a sheet of loose leaf paper through the manual feed slot asking that same question of "Is it a good idea to print on this?" It actually worked just fine, though it was indeed highly pointless. Unfortunately, that video ended up not coming out the way I wanted it to, so I ended up not uploading it. I really should get a video about that printer up on here, though...
My dad used to have a 6L, brings back memories
As John Cameron Swayze said many years ago, "It takes a lickin' and keeps on tickin'."
Thanks for the fun experiments; I actually thought the sandpaper might conceivably improve the uneven print quality. 😁 Amazing how poor-quality these 6Ls were, though I find it difficult to see how a class-action lawsuit could succeed unless they could prove HP intentionally put out faulty product. The 4L is certainly a smart choice for a replacement; those things were real workhorses. Oh, and thank you for the nice WQXR soundtrack - always interesting to hear what classical radio stations in other parts of the country are playing (that string quartet was great).
I recently got a 5L for regular use and so far it has done me very very well! I've just had to get a new toner but I've also had an issue with the paper pulling thing, simply put pages in one by one and you have no issues, it looks very clear and I've got no issues with my toner spilling when upside down, although it is a generic toner and they may have done something different to fix that.
lol well if you're gonna send it to be recycled, might as well have some fun with it eh? lol... haha, the melted binder cover; I didn't think it got quite that hot! My high school had an HP laser jet printer in the computer lab, and it made the same exact noise... funny how certain noises like that can bring back memories lol. It was a different model though. Also, I hope you didn't ruin any of your favourite clothes when you spilled the toner.
Thank you, on behalf of the entire scientific community, for conducting these experiments.
This reminds me of "Is it a good idea to microwave this?".
I took apart an old toner cart before. It's extremely messy, can get all over your hands, and it's pretty hydrophobic. The toner powder can make for some pretty good ferro-fluid and the tube looks like it could be a baton to a relay race.
even your vacuum is from the 90s.. btw, we used to own this printer and have the same problem (the printer takes in more than 1 piece of paper at once).
+Firdaus Fauzi That's a Hoover Constellation. Those were introduced in the 1950s and sold into the '70s. Production of those machines ended way before the '90s.
It's from the late '60s or early '70s.
ahah.. my bad. I just meant that it's old
+Firdaus Fauzi Oh, I was afraid you were having the problem with vwestlife shoving sandpaper into it...
+Firdaus Fauzi Never get rid of a good thing, because not all so called progress is desired! All the vacuums we have owned since the few Hoover models we had, have been rubbish. I would maybe look at a Sebo next as they seem sturdy, reliable and well regarded.
Haha, I figured it would be too hard for this kind of printer to print onto metal, but you still got it to kind of WORK! :D
The other problem that I always found with these upright models is that if you left the paper in the feed tray for any length of time, it would fold over and be permanently bent badly.
HP continued this line into the Laserjet 1100. Not sure whether it had the same problems with feed, but I know it had problems with the paper bending...
I've had this very printer for YEARS! got it for absolutely nothing from my school. I had to order a free roll replacement kit to solve the multipage take-up issue, but afterwards, everything worked quite perfectly. I never had this print quality issue you showed in your video, but, like you, I do think this is a fuser problem. The toner just doesn't want to stick to the material you use to print upon.
Anyways, at the end of its lifespan, mine had printed more than 23k pages, across both "owners" (being the IT dept of my school and then myself.
I technically didn't buy it, so I couldn't have gone wrong with it, anyway. But it served me well enough. The only real downside to it in my opinion was that it didn't feature a duplexer, so I had to manually flip the stack over if I'd ever want to print double-sided. Ah, well... I guess I was one of the luckier owners of one of these...
I actually have that exact printer as our main printer. It works fine most of the time, but as soon as there are less than 5 pages in the feeder it starts acting up.
I picked this printer out of the trash at my former workplace, and even put a fresh toner in it. The print quality is as good as if it is a new printer, it only lacks a bit of memory when printing large images. but since we only use it to print regular documents occasionally, its adequate for our needs.
On the side you´ll find a memory expansion slot behind the lower part of the housing. Can´t remember which side though, but it has the option. :)
+MrDubje how do you still have a computer with a parallel port?
+Firdaus Fauzi Yes, an older computer that shares this printer over the network. I used to use older thinclients for this job as well.
+MrDubje I have a 5L as my main printer and yes my machine has a parallel port, it's from 2008 at a time when parallel ports started to go from machines. They're fine printers it seems, just chuck in a new toner and feed pages in one by one and they're fine. Unless you want to get that paper feeding repair thing from HP but I wouldn't really bother.
I am just an average, Joe Q citizen sitting on my ash watching YT videos, and even I can see this is a horribly designed printer. Makes you wonder just how inept some engineers are.
I've heard that 3M sandpapers work much better in these laser printers.
i always had a 5L worked great (for a week)
At 8:06, Don't breathe this!!
+Computer Whizz 1999
No, you probably don't know this but the reference is from Jogwheel's "Can you Microwave This?" Series.
+BugStrength it's from Blendtec
TheUnrelaxingBeginning Oh yeah. "Can you blend it?"
BugStrength Will it Blend? That is the question.
Actually I got one of these free a couple of days ago. It was pulling in the whole pile of paper at a time but I fixed it by cleaning the paper pulling mechanism with a wet cloth. Since then I have printed close to 1000 pages on it and it still works fine.
I am fortunate to have never had a laser printer behave that way without a good reason(I.E. low toner - 3/4 of my laser printers came to me that way, but the fix was obvious and easy); however, I did have an inkjet a few years ago that had constant problems with its printhead. I probably would have run sandpaper through that one had I been given the chance to do so.
Laserjet 4L? Hey, I have one of those attached to this computer! Awesome tank. And it works perfectly. Only thing wrong is one of the tabs on the door for the parallel cable snapped off because it was dropped (not by me). But some super glue fixed that. It is from 1992, so 24 year old plastic tends to be brittle. I also have another toner for it new in the box (got it for free with the printer), though with the frequency I print, I'll never need it. I also have a modern wireless inkjet all in one, but if I only need B&W, the old 4L works a treat. And I can make it wireless, as this Optiplex 745 has a wireless card, and I have the 4L shared on my network. Should have kept the 4L.
I would love to get me one of the full size LaserJet 4 models, as I remember them from high school (mid 2000s), and they still worked after 10 years. plus the vacuum fluorescent displays they have are just cool.
Did you film this a while ago but just got around to editing it?
No, I actually recorded it this week.
+vwestlife Did you replace it with your dad's old 4L?
That was another one.
vwestlife Ok.
I cringed when the sandpaper went through lol
Your best bet for cleaning is a nice dense sheet of inkjet labels.
But will it blend???!!!!
+Agent57000DM I don't know, but is it a good idea to microwave this printer?
+Swag Industries hell yah!
Just kidding it probably catch on fire and explode.
How the hell would you get a printer in a microwave
+Gage Parker An industrial-sized microwave?
Swag Industries Maybe if you use a small printer.
i had one of these. (a 5L PCL) it had exactly this problem with the multiple pages. at the end it had an huge unfixable paper jam
I got lucky enough to find an HP laserjet 1320 at a thrift store. It has both USB and parallel and has great print quality. Requires a universal driver to work on Windows 7 but works perfect on El Capitan.
You should've sent the printed sandpaper to HP somehow.
Interesting. The cause would be different but the result looks like an issue I had with my current Lexmark color laser when I first bought it. In my case it turned out to be a broken piece off one of the shipping parts that had staid in it's tiny slot. Must have been some kind of switch in that small hole. Lexmark had to send a technician out and even he had trouble finding the issue.
if it fits, it prints...
*tinfoil starts crunching and getting jammed* "Uh-oh"
Ha, I laughed. Love this.
Ahh! Used to have a 5L. Worked great.
+Roderick Hill I have a 5L currently and me and you seem to be the only one who think they're good apart from that multi page pulling issue!
I legitimately said "Yes!", out loud, on the last aluminum foil.
A separation pad and roller kit fixed the problem on mine.
First thing I thought of was if it would work with aluminum foil. :P
Yes, if you tip up a toner cartridge after you have opened it it toner will fall out, the fuser or drum or whatever you want to call it, is considered a consumable on laser printer, and cost a lot of money, so you need to be prepared to buy them now and again, that's why they aren't the best for home users.
Damn, that printer must have pissed you off to the max. Glad you're paying it back!
Like a moron I kept buying HP laser printers for over 12 years. They only lasted less than 2 years each some even less than that. I even bought this one used back in 1999! The 6l and had the same trouble of pulling all the paper. In 2012 we got a Brother laser printer and it has really been the very best laser printer we have ever had. Its been the most reliable and the most inexpensive to operate I saw that brand back in the late 90's and scoffed at a sewing machine company making laser printers. I scoff at my idiot self now. Crow doesn't taste all that good
This was pretty much the best video I could have hoped to watch after staying up way too late playing video games and eating Oreo Thins. (I had six of them...)
I never cared much for HP printers after I got my Windows 7 computer and the HP DeskJet that our family bought in the late 90s wouldn't work with it. Pretty silly, considering I'm still using a Brother HL-1440 laser printer from 1997 or so on my Windows 10 computer, even with the official drivers. Now THAT's product support.
+Sidney Rutledge You just need a parallel to USB adapter to use that printer, but I also have a HL-1440 in storage, they're from the early 00's not the late 90's, it seems to be they're from the early 00's anyway. It's done about 20,000 pages now.
Sony Trinitron It's possible, although I think it must be a little earlier seeing as though there are Windows 3.1 drivers available.
Also, the printer has USB support, which came around in about 1996 or 7, although I can't recall exactly.
Sidney Rutledge DOS/windows 3.1 was used well into the early 00's though. I know one person who used a DOS machine until about 2005
I had a 4L up until about 1.5 years ago. Bought @ the Goodwill around '05, it worked great until it ceased to power up one day.
+Madness832 You have to give it credit for lasting that long. A new printer probably wouldn't last for 10 years.
EXTREME PRINTER TORTURE TEST! :D
it's the rollers. quick fix is rubber cement in them.
other option is holding a lighter/dab torch to them to soften them up.
your toner was exposed to light, the transfer part was ruined. that is why it prints In stripes.
Some ideas if you run out of paper during the apocalypse
Same thing happened to my last 3 printers. Piece of crap just gives up printing properly after a year. Luckily I've had great luck with this canon! 3 years and still running like a champ
So satisfying to watch
Is toner like a longer lasting ink-like substance? Or is it something else entirely
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toner
+vwestlife I have seen on your videos that you have never bought a new computer. Just curious, but what is the most expensive computer you have ever bought?
The only new computer I bought is the K3 keyboard PC that I reviewed recently. All my other computers were used or refurbished when I bought them.
If it pulled 3 sheets through, that means it actually pulled SIX _pages_ through.
Something I've always wanted to do...
More more more videos like that cool you Found the sweet spot.
Another awesome video haha. Couldn't stop laughing
Have you tried turning it off and back on again?
That was cool! Let's EOL it, big explosion! :)
Oh, god. I remember I had this printer back in the day, it was such a piece of shit.
i remember having a Canon S300 something. man i love the sounds it made. but it got full of ink and it sucked.
Certainly much slower than my Dell laser printer 1700, but that has a problem where it cant take paper from the tray. other than that, its printed in about 5 seconds.
I love it!!!
Kinda cool looking
Found the same printer with 3 toner cartridges in street not far from were I live about 10 year's ago and yes the paper feed is crappy.
why do I find this so amusing?
because it's interesting to watch weird stuff to through a printer?
Never thought of that before. :P
when I was a kid I used to print on tinfoil sheets using my inkject printer to make temporary tatoos :P
This was amusing 🙂
As a computer technician, I ceased to sell or suggest any HP printing product.
This printer be 🎵jammin 🎵
The cleaning power of sandpaper can outmatch baking soda.
Oh my god, we have that laserjet!
There is a kit to fix the paper pulling thing.
I must Try it!
Next time I would like to see you print on 2 gallons of distilled water poured through the top. Thanks.