RE: Lexmark X5150 --------- It doesn't feed paper -------- I use Windex glass cleaner and a Scotch Brite (plastic steel wool like pad) skuff pad.
I also use a product called "Goof-Off" or "OOPS". Both are mild paint removers for wiping up splatters. They emitt fumes so use these in a well ventilated area.
The next thing to use is alcohol. 99% alcohol works best but most is 70%
Spray feed rollers or pad, rub feed rollers in one direction while rotating rollers in the direction of paper feed if you can.
Put the product on the end of a "Q-Tip" (cotton on the end of a small stick) and rub the feed roller in one direction like you are pushing the dirt to one side. Somehow, you have to move the feed rollers a little in the normal direction of rotation a little at a time untill all of the roller is cleaned .
If you can't move the feed roller by hand, it might do it self when turning the machine on or maybe you have to try to print a page, let the rollers turn a little and turn off the machine in the middle of the paper feed cycle.
--------- And you're right, the cartridges don't last 5 minutes. ----------- The ink level indicator on the monitor screen does not actually measure the ink. When the cartridge is new, it has so many micro drops of ink in it. When you print, the micro drops are subtracted from the full indicator by some math formuls. In some printers the ink level indicators could be off by asmuch as 30%. Some printers have software where you could tell the printer ink level indicator you put in a new cartridge, but you put in an old empty ink cartridge. So what you see on the monitor may or may not be what you actually have in the ink department. This is general information about Lexmark printers. They change models and software so often I do not try to keep up with all of the models.
I bet you thought you were buying a printer to print what you wanted to print. You didn't. The company got you into buying a revenue generating machine.
Examples Old machines cost $250. Each ink cartridge (40ml) printed 800 pages and costs $25. Supplies for the lifetime of the machine (10 ink cartridges 8,000 pages) costs were another $250. So the total cost of the machine $250 + $250 for ink, so the total was $500.
New machines are around $100. Each ink cartridge (10ml) printes 200 pages and costs $22. Supplies for the lifetime of the new machine (40 ink cartridges 8,000 pages) is machine $100 + $880 for ink, so the total is $980.
Hence another $480 for the mgf and resellers for the same 8,000 pages you want to print and that is if you only print in black. If you add the extra cost of color add another couple of hundred dollars to the total lifetime cost.
These, new "enhanced revenug gerating devices" are referred to as "installed units" in some companies stock holders reports. Companies explain why they are making more money using double-speak terms in my opinion.
BTW, did you think you were printing in black and not using up your color ink, "WRONG". Most printers that have a color cartridge actually go over what you print in black and print over top of the black with about 5% color ink. So, say you thought you never used any color ink and have used 5 black cartridges, there is a good chance your color cartridge is almost empty.
Laser print last much longer than ink and the paper gets smoothed out when going through the fuser rollers (fuser binds the toner to the paper). Ink fades, runs if it gets wet, and makes the paper wrinkle some because it is making the paper wet when it is applied.
In general, the cost to print 8,000 pages for most medium sized laser printers is $150 if you buy new toner cartridges and as low as $80 if you buy "GOOD" reconditioned toner cartridges.
Good laser printers? Hewlitt Packard "only". Good used models LJ-2100 or LJ-2200D ("D"=prints both sides, good for printing books type jobs). I buy, recondition, resell LJ-5 (6K P), LJ-5Si(15K P), LJ-4000(10K P), especially to accountants, and lawyers. LJ-1100(2.5K P) are OK after the paper feed roller and paper seperation parts are replaced with the new HP parts. Generic parts SUCK.
Newer, low cost HP printers print 2.5K (2.5K P) pages per toner cartridge. LJ-1210 around $150 after rebates or store promotions.
OG Lou
PS TAG. How was that no sex stuff!
PS Jo. Look on eBay and ask me about something there if you want to or a URL so we can talk about the same thing. I used to buy lots of things from eBay. I only buy from sellers with a 98% or above satisfaction rate.
