IMHO, there is no line (not even a fine one) between "Cost cutting" and
"messing up the design". I get a lot of argument on that point and certainly
you can engineer something to do the job well for less. But the engineer
wanted to use material "A" (ideally) and knew that he/she needed to use
material "B" because the only frontier that HP has to explore is how cheap a
printer they can make and not totally destroy their rep for quality. If you
can get an old HP LJ III or 4, do so. They are 10 times the printers that HP
puts out now. Well.... on the other hand, I really like these LJ 4050's....

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-----Original Message-----
From: pic microcontroller discussion list
[mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU]On Behalf Of Kev Howard
Sent: Sunday, November 21, 1999 3:52 PM
To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: [OT] HP laser printers [OT]


I have been using HP 5p laser printer for some time, then it died in the
middle of a PIC pcb layout, The fuser  had gone o/c , after stripping it
down, I find it  is a ceramic bar, with a thick film heater which had
cracked
right by a stresspoint - caused by a  pressure dependant electrical contact
straight onto the ceramic!
Is it me being too critical or did  HP mess up on the design?

Kev