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Where are you located? I have a 932C sitting here collecting dust. It worked
fine the last time I used it. |
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Where are you located? I have a 932C sitting here collecting dust. It worked fine the last time I used it. I'm in western Kentucky (about 45 minutes southeast of Paducah, two hours northwest of Nashville, TN). |
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There could be three or four causes to the problem, all of which would
cost more to repair than buying a new cheapo printer, except for one. 1) one of the ribbon cable from the controler board to the cartridge carrier has become loose in it's socket at the board end. This is the cheapest to fix, just shove it back in. 2) the controler board is fried. Too expensive to replace. 3) the ribbon cable is broken in places, Again, too expensive to fix. 4 As you suggested in your post, if at one time the printer printed color but no longer does, the cartridge contacts may be bad. This may be caused by ink build up on the contacts or they are simply worn out. I kind of doubt that that is the case though. My bet is the board or the ribbon cable itself. Frank Thanks for the quick reply! I checked the ribbon cable and it seemed firmly in place. If it was out of place, it isn't now (and I'm fairly sure it was plugged in). I tried printing and produced the same result as before. My next step will be to take the printer cartridges out of this printer and put them in my mother's HP930c (from what I hear they're practically identical). If hers prints the same way as mine, I'll narrow it down to the cartridges. I might use my parallel cable on her printer so that the only real variable is the cartridge...then try her cable if the print job is the same. I really hope it's just the parallel cable or the cartridges because I can't afford to buy a new printer. Thanks, again, Frank. I'll keep everyone posted since I know someone else might run into the same problem. I've always been a pathfinder in fixing computer problems because the most strange and rare ones land in my lap. James |
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