[CLUE-Tech] Compensating for insufficient printer memory

[Charles Oriez]

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At 01:19 PM 7/17/2004 -0600, Matt Gushee wrote:

>Hi, all--
>
>I recently bought a used HP LaserJet 5L, which works fine. Except that
>it only has 1MB of memory, so many large documents just won't print.
>I'd like to buy more memory for it, but unfortunately it requires a
>credit-card type memory module, which seems to be very hard to come by.
>Nobody's got it locally; I could buy it direct from HP, but they charge
>about $370 for 4 megs [GAG, SPLUTTER, COUGH!]. It's been suggested that
>I try eBay, and I may end up doing that, but ... I dunno, for whatever
>reason I really dislike buying anything online. Or maybe I should just
>buy a different printer.

I can't answer your main question re spools. However, I was somewhat in 
your boat, only with a Epson Action Laser that was no longer being 
manufactured.  I plugged the memory spec into google and found a gray 
market vendor out there that sold me the right kind of memory fairly 
cheap.  Long enough ago that I don't remember who it was, but I do know 
that it was significantly less than epson wanted, and that it is still 
working fine.




Charles Oriez     coriez at oriez.org
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