For the last year, I've been without a working printer at my home office. I brought a LaserJet 6MP printer with me from my office at Oracle Headquarters when I moved my family to my wife's home town back in 2001, and my father-in-law built me a custom transformer to have the right specs to run my US printer off the power in Italy. All fine and well for the first couple of years. About a year ago the paper just started jamming as it was coming out and these odd black marks would appear on the printouts that didn't jam. I finally realized that what had happened was that the little black, rubber rollers that guide the paper out of the printer has literally suffered a meltdown. They were all sticky to the touch, and obviously paper sticks to sticky things, so it was the culprint for causing the ever-more frequently occurring paper jams.
After first trying to see if Oracle IT would repair the printer -- nope, too old, sorry -- and checking around my local town and province for a place that might have the spare parts, I eventually just unplugged it and moved it out of my home office. Today, reading Jon Udell's blog, the solution just dropped into my lap like manna from heaven: FixYourOwnPrinter.com. Who'da Thought? This kit was exactly what I needed.
This site will be shipping me the spare part I need, and a video that explains how to install it for a reasonable price, breathing new life into my old workhorse. I wish everything were this easy!
12:22:45 PM 
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