hp printer maintenance?

Question

What maintenance can I do for an HP 4100N that is asking me to perform maintenance. I am having no problems, the printer is working great and I really don't need the maintenance at this point.

Answer 1

OK, now for the insider info. As a long suffering repair engineer on HP printers, my rule is simple. If it ain't broke don't fix it. Therefore follow these instructions and you will be fine.

First you need to enter service mode:

1 While turning on the printer, hold down SELECT and CANCEL JOB until all of the lights on the control panel are lit.
2 Press the right side of the MENU key, then press SELECT. The message SERVICE MODE temporarily appears and will reappear when the printer completes the initialization process.
3. Press [Menus] once to display SERVICE MENU.
4. Once it says SERVICE MENU press ITEM to scroll through service mode items.
5. To exit the service mode, press GO.
Note: If READY appears in the control panel, the keys might have been released too soon, or the wrong keys were pressed.

In the service menu you will find an option for the maintenance counter. Reset this value to zero and you will find it will stop whinging.

There is a shortcut on SOME 4100's

"The Short Cut Method"
1. Turn the printer off.
2. Hold down the Item key (minus side of the button) and Value key (minus side).
3. Turn the printer on.
4. Wait for RESET MAINTENANCE COUNT to be displayed and then release both keys.

NOTE: Some versions of the 4000, 4050, 4100, and 5000 will NOT have their maintenance count reset by following the preceding "short cut" method. This is do to the many different formatter board revisions. If the short cut method doesn't reset the maintenance count then you will need to go into service mode to manually reset the maintenance count to zero.

I hope this saves you a lot of time, and saves you wasting money.

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Answer 2

The manual will tell you what is needed... it's probably things like changing the felt pad in the fuser and cleaning the corona wire.

I find that vacuuming the paper and toner dust out also is a good idea... providing you've got a good vacuum cleaner 'cos you don;t want to spray it through the filter into your air.

If you don't do it the quality of printing will slowly deterioriate... but not doing it for a few thousand pages won't hurt the quality. I'm working in an office where a Laserjet 4si has been complaining about maintenance for 6 months and still works 'fine'.

Answer 3

Laser printers need regular maintenance as a preventative measure after so many pages. On your particular printer you may need to replace the fuser kit, or perhaps purchase a maintenance kit and replace any belts, gears or rollers that have outlived their life span.

Both a fuser kit and maintenance kit are readily available from HP.
Consult your manual to see after how many pages you need to replace certain componants.

Answer 4

very almost a 'unfavourable' answer...ditch the printer, seek ebay for 'non-supply up Ink grant', get new printer which will take the device, and, have self belief it or not, with the help of the time you have used the ink featuring the device you have got recovered the fee of the device and printer. device fee $70, refil ink (60 carts worth) $30. in case you bypass this way, be effective to get a 'pre-crammed device.