mikeymikec
Lifer
An example of that meme:
On a similar note, I personally think that someone who is given the job of designing a laser printer should have had to fix a paper jam in one before, change a toner cartridge, maybe even a drum too, which are normally very simple tasks.
The makers of this monstrosity and all its siblings likely had not.
To fetch a torn piece of paper I eventually found sticking out of the fuser unit, I had to remove the front, back, left and right side panels (most of which did not come off without significant prying, the kind that would break a laptop's chassis into pieces), disconnect circuitry and un-channel wiring, and navigate several standardised screws until finding ones with two different threads plus one with a star-shaped head, because you know, where would the fun be in life if you couldn't 80% dismantle a piece of kit to find that you don't have the right screwdriver for the rest of the job (I did, thankfully).
I followed this guide until this printer diverged from that printer's design and winged it the rest of the way:
Hopefully Dell doesn't make printers any more. If they do, beware.
On a similar note, I personally think that someone who is given the job of designing a laser printer should have had to fix a paper jam in one before, change a toner cartridge, maybe even a drum too, which are normally very simple tasks.
The makers of this monstrosity and all its siblings likely had not.
To fetch a torn piece of paper I eventually found sticking out of the fuser unit, I had to remove the front, back, left and right side panels (most of which did not come off without significant prying, the kind that would break a laptop's chassis into pieces), disconnect circuitry and un-channel wiring, and navigate several standardised screws until finding ones with two different threads plus one with a star-shaped head, because you know, where would the fun be in life if you couldn't 80% dismantle a piece of kit to find that you don't have the right screwdriver for the rest of the job (I did, thankfully).
I followed this guide until this printer diverged from that printer's design and winged it the rest of the way:
Hopefully Dell doesn't make printers any more. If they do, beware.
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