[gui-talk] Printer recommendations?

[George and Pamela Dominguez]

I didn't know that or I might still have mine.  It did that in 2004, and I
had it since 1991 and it was still going strong.  Pam.
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From: "W. Nick Dotson" <nickdotson at bellsouth.net>
To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 7:58 PM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Printer recommendations?


> And, after that, a little Emory Cloth goes a long way toward restoring a
roller.  I even got a bottle of stuff with what smells like Acitone which
the print shoppe
> said worked really wesll...
>
> W. Nick  On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 15:09:52 -0700, Joel Deutsch wrote:
>
>  Andy,
>
>  Whoops. Didn't anyone read you the instructions or tell you that this is
>  similar to what can happen to the rubber rollers in the tape transport of
a
>  cassette deck?  If I'd retired my HP 520 the firwst time I experienced
what
>  you describe, it wouldn't have lasted three years!  You're supposed to
rub
>  each roller, all the way around, with the kind of alcohol that's used for
>  this purpose-- isopropyl alcohol, I think--, which will clean off the
dark
>  gunk from the surface that causes it to become slick (I used to be able
to
>  see this on the folded paper towel I used for the purpose) and leave the
>  roller with its old texture again for grabbing the paper.
>
>  Oh, well.
>  ----- Original Message ----- 
>  From: "Baracco, Andrew W" <Andrew.Baracco at va.gov>
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>  Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 2:35 PM
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>
>  Actually, what caused the demise of my HP 520 was that the rubber on the
>  pinch rollers wore smooth, so they couldn't feed the paper through.  The
>  printer would act like there was no paper in the tray.  I had heard from
>  others who had the same problem, and was told it was time to retire that
>  printer.  As for the printing, if you could get paper to it, it would
>  print, but it didn't last anywhere near 12 years.  I think it's neat
>  that your 520 served you well for so long.
>  Andy
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