Anybody Remember HP 6P Printers?

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Slow Old Poop Guru Join Date: May 2008 Location: Cedar Rapids Iowa USA Posts: 506 Good Answers: 13	Anybody Remember HP 6P Printers? 09/04/2012 9:45 PM
	We keep buying rebuilt HP 6P laser printers because (a) they are cheap, (b) the cartridges are also dirt cheap and (c) they are pretty troublefree and reliable until they finally fail. We have about six of them now. When they fail, we throw them away and order more, because it's cheaper than repairing them. Problem is, some of them are slower than dirt. I'm assuming it's because the slow ones don't have as much memory as the faster ones. So here's my question: Can I salvage memory chips out of a failed 6P and stuff them into another 6P? Or is there something else to consider? __________________ Life is like a sewer. What you get out of it depends on what you put into it.--Tom Lehrer
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phoenix911 Guru Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 23585 Good Answers: 419	#1 Re: Anybody Remember HP 6P Printers? 09/05/2012 11:10 AM
	if I recall, I believe they do have memory modules. I believe they were Kingston..........or was that an Epson... __________________ “ When people get what they want, they are often surprised when they get what they deserve " - James Wood
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pantaz Guru Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Van Nuys, CA Posts: 563 Good Answers: 33	#2 Re: Anybody Remember HP 6P Printers? 09/05/2012 12:37 PM
	"The HP LaserJet 6P printer comes with 2 MB of memory and can be expanded to 50 MB with the three available memory (SIMM) slots." "The HP LaserJet 6MP [Postscript] printer comes with 3 MB of memory and can be expanded to 35 MB with the two available memory (SIMM) slots." http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&objectID=bpl04067 The document doesn't say if the original memory is removable.
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Slow Old Poop Guru Join Date: May 2008 Location: Cedar Rapids Iowa USA Posts: 506 Good Answers: 13	#3 In reply to #2 Re: Anybody Remember HP 6P Printers? 09/05/2012 12:54 PM
	Thanks, Pantaz. That's exactly what I needed (I hope) I have one really slow printer right now and one I was getting ready to discard--let's see if I can salvage a SIMM card from the discard and transplant it into the slow one. __________________ Life is like a sewer. What you get out of it depends on what you put into it.--Tom Lehrer
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Deefburger Guru Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Sebastopol, California Posts: 1145 Good Answers: 50	#4 Re: Anybody Remember HP 6P Printers? 09/06/2012 12:04 AM
	I like to completely disassemble printers and salvage anything I can. It;s fun and it stocks me up with all kinds of stuff. __________________ Most people are mostly good most of the time.
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Nigh Guru Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: South east U.K. Posts: 3662 Good Answers: 93	#5 Re: Anybody Remember HP 6P Printers? 09/06/2012 4:16 AM
	For some reason some years ago Dell were selling all-in-one printers (sold as Dell but they were Lexmark). These printer/scanner/copiers were sold for £9.00 each so I bought several am still using them. __________________ I didn't have a really important life, but at least it's been funny (Lemmy Kilminster 1945-2015)
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reward54 Guru Join Date: Feb 2012 Posts: 523 Good Answers: 17	#6 In reply to #5 Re: Anybody Remember HP 6P Printers? 09/06/2012 1:51 PM
	Were these ink-jet printers? Can you still find ink for them? I have found over the last two years that, for my home use, it is cheaper to buy a new printer than it is to buy ink. Advantage to me is I get a new printer with a new warranty and fresh ink. Disadvantage is I am helping to waste natural resources and ruin the ecology by replacing perfectly good hardware. I donate the older printers, but that just means I am transferring the exhorbitant ink costs to someone else.
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Nigh Guru Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: South east U.K. Posts: 3662 Good Answers: 93	#7 In reply to #6 Re: Anybody Remember HP 6P Printers? 09/07/2012 8:10 AM
	Yes they are ink-jet & I re-fill the cartridges. __________________ I didn't have a really important life, but at least it's been funny (Lemmy Kilminster 1945-2015)
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