[Discuss] Printer issues

[Jerry Feldman]

I have an older HP ColorLaserJet 4500N. Excellent printer. But, last
month when I tried to print a Jet Blue boarding pass, it failed to print
the bar code. I ended up printing it on my wife's ink jet. I also mucked
with the drivers a bit.
The other day after I bought my mother her iPad, I printed out a
checklist for installation for her and my wife. The origianl checklist
has red, green and blue lines, and it printed ok. I later revised the
checklist, but both the green and blue were printed as black. My toner
levels look ok.. The driver I'm using is HPCups PCL3 3.12.4. I also have
an HPijs, same version, and a V2014.200 Postscipt as well as the crappy
Gutenprint. I just tried printing with 3 different drivers. Looks to me
that the hardware is failing. One possible short term solution is to
shake the yellow and blue toner cartridges. The printer didn't cost me
anything and lasted for about 4 years, so I'm pretty much ahead of the game

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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
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