{"id":9171,"date":"2008-01-10T23:34:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-11T04:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2008\/01\/10\/hp-laserjet-5l\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:36:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:36:25","slug":"hp-laserjet-5l","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2008\/01\/10\/hp-laserjet-5l\/","title":{"rendered":"HP LaserJet 5L"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"My<\/a>My Trusty<\/strike> HP LaserJet 5L<\/center><\/p>\n

On Christmas Eve of 1994 my parents gave me a HP LaserJet 5L. At the time it cost somewhere around $400 – $500, but was one of the most affordable laser printers for home use. Over the years it’s been particularly helpful to have a laser printer around home. With the wonders of toner (over ink) it’s been a great, reliable printer, except for back in 2001-2002 when I had to replace the rollers because they were no longer picking up paper. Tonight the pickup rollers stopped picking up paper again. I haven’t investigated if it is possibly something more than the rubber on the rollers, but I hope not.<\/p>\n

I’ll probably first try to clean the rollers with alcohol, but I may just have to buy a kit like this one<\/a> and replace them. I’m tempted to give the printer up to the gods, but that’d be a bit wasteful, so even if I give it away I’ll probably get it into a working state first.<\/p>\n

It’s a great PCL printer and works great with Windows, but as OS X uses Gimp-Print \/ Gutenprint<\/a> for its generic drivers, dithered images tend to look like poo. That all makes me want a PostScript printer, but one of those won’t be very cheap. It would be really nice to have one with a built in print server so that I could finally stop using the (as old as the printer) 10baseT \/ 10base2 JetDirect EX Plus. Although that thing works great too, and any OS which can do any sort of network printing at all can find a way to send data to it…<\/p>\n

So, I’m not sure what I want to do yet, but I do know that I can’t quite afford a new printer. Ah well, at least it’s had a good run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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