9810 question and offer

[Tony Duell]

(02-24-2014 05:37 AM)Katie Wasserman Wrote:  I'm sure Tony's not pleased, but by swapping boards you're being true to HP's repair methodology as outlines in their service manuals. As far as fixing your broker printer mechanism goes .... I was able to clean off all the goo from the parts and make a new platen from scratch in my 9810. Here's an old thread discussing that and other ideas.

Actually, not quite true-to-original. The official way was to replace the entire printer, the boards were not replaced separately. It may have made sense then (although replacing a printer because a transistor or cheap TTL buffer IC has failed seems a bit excessive, tracing this fault wouldn't take long), but today it makes no sense at all, you can get the transistors and buffer ICs easily, you can't get complete HP boards.