What to do with a laser printer?

Question

Iron

Xerox Phaser 3130
56,000 pages printed.
Is that too much for him? Few? According to the spec , it is normal for him to issue 15,000 pages per month.

Stopped taking paper. Now prints only from manual feed.
When I took it normally, I constantly stopped printing with long documents. That is, it prints 3 pages and stops printing, starts blinking the red LED endlessly. To continue working, it was enough to open / close the cover to replace the cartridge or, to choose from, open and close the paper tray. It also helped if I took it out to the balcony during printing in winter: it printed more pages at a time.

It has a half-full (or half-empty) native cartridge in it, it has never been refilled (I remember I paid around 3500-4000r for it).
But now the printer has stopped taking paper ...

Today I read a 99 page topic on ixbt "Choosing the best budget laser printer" , upset. Almost read the whole thing. There, Samsung printers are recommended, due to the fact that they are easy to reflash so that they do not use chips. And also Kyocera, for those who will use original consumables.
I went to market.yandex.ru and got even more upset.
It seems that printer manufacturers are not yet aware that the industry produces cheap cpu and memory. The performance characteristics of budget printers are depressing (look at the HP LaserJet Pro P1102 ), the performance characteristics of professional ones are not admirable. Anyway, I have 2013 on my calendar.
There is an impression that they deliberately make slow, often breaking devices. And to make it even more fun, insert chips.

So what should I do next? Replacing the paper pickup roller, I obviously will not get off. To fix? Throw on a cartridge and buy a new printer? If so, which one? Is it true that Samsung has no alternatives in terms of cost of ownership?

Answer 1

Of course, I’m still a lamer in pieces of iron, but in the last twenty-five years of conscious use of various kinds of devices, such as: printers, washing machines, stoves, mixers, blenders, refrigerators, computer spare parts, etc., I can conclude that in the last ten years, pieces of iron have been deliberately produced with a lifespan within the limits of warranty validity, that is, three years or so.
Parents in a private house in the middle of the forests near Moscow, full of bears and mobile Internet, have had a second stump for more than fifteen years and do the work of saving static jpegs from the webcam and delivering them to the right placeseveral times a minute, and over the same period I changed more than a dozen stationary computers, three full-fledged laptops and about five netbooks - as you understand, all this was produced in the last five to ten years. I can tell the same thing about refrigerators, washing machines, dishwashers, yeah.
Therefore, most likely, you will have to part with the printer. And then you will have to get used to doing it every three to five years. Alas.

Answer 2

If the printer stops printing after it cannot pick up paper, then you definitely need to change the rollers. The price of happiness is 300-400 rubles. If not, then try wiping the contact pads from the lid and cartridge closing sensor. I had the same monster as you :)

Answer 3

If you take a new one, pay attention to Brother. Before that, I had a Xerox Phaser 3140 - it burned out six months later. Now Brother HL-2035, I really like it.

Answer 4

I have a Xerox Phaser 2135 as a bedside table, and the rollers have already dried up :(

Answer 5

Kyocera FS- 1370DN
market.yandex.ru/model-spec.xml?modelid=6383221&hid=138608
At first, not everything was changed, then problems again. For repair kits / replacement, they charged 12 thousand rubles. New about 10 thousand rubles
Decided to order a new printer every year. Although new models in the news wrote up to 500,000 resources.
According to HP, I'll try to take readings and see who was under repair.
The latter bought an old Xerox model. One word of mindfulness. (A3 format)
Brother is expensive for gas stations with us.
In general, almost the entire HP park. In general, running is not a hunt.
HP/Kyocera. The main thing is to take the one where the cartridge is larger and there are compatible consumables.
There are inexpensive brands of Cactus. Took a couple of times so far, zero complaints. 35A Or 36A printed ~2000 pages.
Refueled in the company ~ 700. I don't trust managers. Yes, and put tucked in, and then quality problems begin or immediately.
53A\53X 05A Large cartridges from HP ;)
The cheapest cacti in my opinion 12A
A printer:
Give as a gift\sleep and\or take it home :)

Answer 6

Once I pulled out a laser pointer from a laser printer (only you can’t insert it back and the printer will have to be thrown away). It shone for 3 kilometers, and maybe even further, it's just not visible. The thing is cool, just be careful, it can sometimes burn out letters (if the page cache is not cleared). So think for yourself what to do with a laser printer.

Answer 7

At work, some printers run over 500,000 sheets. It does not pick up paper because the paper pick-up roller has worn out. xerox 3250 very many reflashed. I can't say about your model. I know that in 3250 the chip is on the cartridge, not in the printer. If you take a new printer, then take HP or Samsung. If you like Linux then Xerox and Brother. If you have additional questions, you can ask me. Several printers pass through me a day.