Do I scrap my printer?

[Charly]

It's often cheaper to just buy a new printer every time your ink runs out and use the ink that the new printer comes with.

Haha. Wow. Then pretty soon you'd have an office full of printers.

Contact Andre @ Pretoria East Printers

We use him for all our printer repairs and if its uneconomical to repair he will tell you so.

Thanks a lot. Will do.

The red pretty solid or are they narrow lines?

If it's narrow lines then it could likely be the toner drum that's faulty. You can take it to a cartridge refill place and they can swop the drum for you. A place in the cape i usually go to asks about R50 to do it.

If it's solid red then i'd guess it's the fuser film that has degraded. Did you spot any bits of grey'ish plastic coming out with some print jobs at one stage?

I've never replaced one on a colour laser so not sure if each toner has it's own fuser since your lines are only red but with some patience you could open the printer and take a look. Youtube has lots of videos on taking apart printers.

It's the narrow magenta lines. I'm going to keep my fingers crossed. Hopefully that's all it will cost. Thanks

 

[Rouxenator]

Just had to...

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[bigboy529]

Epson EcoTank, initial price is more than traditional printers, but you'll never look back.

 

[Stokstert]

Epson EcoTank, initial price is more than traditional printers, but you'll never look back.

Until 31 March 2016 you get money back and you get full sets of ink plus an extra black.

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