{"id":1300,"date":"2022-07-11T20:37:07","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T01:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sinister.net\/netpress\/?p=1300"},"modified":"2024-06-19T15:39:01","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T20:39:01","slug":"yes-you-can-miss-a-printer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sinister.net\/netpress\/index.php\/yes-you-can-miss-a-printer\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes, you can miss a printer."},"content":{"rendered":"

I bought a HP LaserJet 5 a VERY long time ago for a contract desktop publishing job. It cost me $1000, a substantial investment (given my salary at the time was $12,000). That printer was stolen when Charlotte Hayes<\/span> was house sitting for us back when we lived on Duke Street, which means it was likely 2000.<\/p>\n

HP had JUST stopped selling that model when it was stolen, which meant my insurance replaced it with a HP LaserJet 6 MP. I pulled it apart once lo those many years ago to replace a roller which had gotten sticky. Otherwise it’s been rock-solid.<\/p>\n

But it’s finally dying. The exterior plastic has slowly degraded – anything with a plastic clip or hinge is broken. Most of the movable plastic exterior has cracked (to the point that a wooden block keeps the cover closed).<\/p>\n

Every page now ghosts badly — the fuser has worn out. The case plastic is now so brittle there’s no way to disassemble and reassemble the printer.<\/p>\n

10,322 pages isn’t that much in the grand scale of things, but it’s worked reliably for the past 22 years. Can’t ask for much more than that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I bought a HP LaserJet 5 a VERY long time ago for a contract desktop publishing job. It cost me $1000, a substantial investment (given my salary at the time was $12,000). That printer was stolen when Charlotte Hayes was house sitting for us back when we lived on Duke Street, which means it was … Continue reading “Yes, you can miss a printer.”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinister.net\/netpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinister.net\/netpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinister.net\/netpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinister.net\/netpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinister.net\/netpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1300"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinister.net\/netpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1302,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinister.net\/netpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300\/revisions\/1302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinister.net\/netpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinister.net\/netpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinister.net\/netpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}