{"id":25,"date":"2008-08-21T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-21T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/feedmittens.com\/fmblog\/nerdstuff\/"},"modified":"2008-08-21T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-21T12:00:00","slug":"nerdstuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feedmittens.com\/fmblog\/nerdstuff\/","title":{"rendered":"NerdStuff"},"content":{"rendered":"

* first off * I am working on a way to get my Nerd posts off the main page of my blog and make them visible only with a Category view.\u00a0 I\u2019ll toy around with the PHP code later on.\u00a0 In the meantime, I\u2019m just going to blog my geeky little heart out about very non interesting things right here on the main page.\u00a0 Suck it.<\/em><\/p>\n\n

Our office printer, an HP 2430n, started curling pages recently.\u00a0 This went on for a month, and the only thing I could do was to replace to toner to see if it had any effect.\u00a0 It didn\u2019t, of course.\u00a0 I called HP and the printer was out of warranty.\u00a0 They gave me a few tips, like to set the fuser temp to low (whch you can do from the printer\u2019s control panel), but it didn\u2019t really fix the problem, and with the temperature so low, the toner didn\u2019t bond to the paper all too well and came off on my fingers when I rubbed the paper.\u00a0 The prognosis was that the printer needed a new fuser.<\/p>\n

The cost of a new fuser was about $230, which wasn\u2019t horrible.\u00a0 The labor to have our service comapny visit and do the work, though, was more than I wanted to spend for what seemed a simple job.\u00a0 So, I downloaded the service manual for the printer and figured I could do it myself.\u00a0 I ordered the fuser from CDW (they had it!\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t the easiest thing to find at a normal office supply or computer place), and after a long backorder delay, it arrived yesterday.<\/p>\n

Four screws, a couple plastic tabs, and three wires later and the thing was replace.\u00a0 Piece of cake!\u00a0 After powering the printer back up, I went into the control panel and reset the fuser temp. level to \u2018normal\u2019 and it\u2019s printing properly again with no page curling.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

The printer is only about two years old, and as an HP I was a little miffed that the fuser needed replacing so quickly, but at least we didn\u2019t have to buy a whole new printer or spend $ on a repair guy to come out.\u00a0 Problem solved.<\/p>\n

Here are pics of the fuser unit and the printer itself.\u00a0 Good times.<\/p>\n

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* first off * I am working on a way to get my Nerd posts off the main page of my blog and make them visible only with a Category view.\u00a0 I\u2019ll toy around with the PHP code later on.\u00a0 In the meantime, I\u2019m just going to blog my geeky little heart out about very […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-nerd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/feedmittens.com\/fmblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/feedmittens.com\/fmblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/feedmittens.com\/fmblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feedmittens.com\/fmblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/feedmittens.com\/fmblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/feedmittens.com\/fmblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feedmittens.com\/fmblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feedmittens.com\/fmblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}