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major_clangerNoises that laser printers aren't meant to make: Graunchhh...
The manual for our very nice colour laser printer doesn't say "don't try to print on labels". It does warn you to make sure that the labels you are going to use are suitable for use with laser printers, but then since the ones I picked up yesterday do actually say "for inkjet, laser printer and copier" on the packet, I rather assumed I'd covered this angle.
Which is why I was rather annoyed to find myself with the printer in bits as I carefully peeled two wayward labels off the (delicate and expensive) image transfer belt. The damage doesn't seem to be terminal, but there's evidently some residue left behind as we're now getting mild but definitely visible blotching. I've emailed Minolta tech support to ask if there's any way of cleaning a transfer belt - I'd be hesitant to try any solvents without checking carefully - and in the mean time have dragged out the old Deskjet to finish the label job.
Bugger, bugger and more bugger. This is definitely the weekend for mechanical devices to gang up on me: a whole load of components on my car have all worn out together (cunning design there!) resulting in an MOT bill of very painful proportions. Was it something I said?
The manual for our very nice colour laser printer doesn't say "don't try to print on labels". It does warn you to make sure that the labels you are going to use are suitable for use with laser printers, but then since the ones I picked up yesterday do actually say "for inkjet, laser printer and copier" on the packet, I rather assumed I'd covered this angle.
Which is why I was rather annoyed to find myself with the printer in bits as I carefully peeled two wayward labels off the (delicate and expensive) image transfer belt. The damage doesn't seem to be terminal, but there's evidently some residue left behind as we're now getting mild but definitely visible blotching. I've emailed Minolta tech support to ask if there's any way of cleaning a transfer belt - I'd be hesitant to try any solvents without checking carefully - and in the mean time have dragged out the old Deskjet to finish the label job.
Bugger, bugger and more bugger. This is definitely the weekend for mechanical devices to gang up on me: a whole load of components on my car have all worn out together (cunning design there!) resulting in an MOT bill of very painful proportions. Was it something I said?
