If you use a 'very old' but still very functional laser printer, like my Epson C2000, you'll occasionally be irked (by the printer) to replace one of its expensive consumables. This note explains how to delay the replacement to the future, perhaps when the print quality has deteriorated. If your thinking is like my thinking you probably
a) aren't too bothered by print quality because you only use the printer for xyz.
b) you have another good printer for best printing anyway
c) aren't too bothered if you damage it, i.e. you damage it
d) feel it's urgent and you don't have a replacement consumable just now
Normally the printer will warn you well ahead of time that one of the consumables needs replacing. Sometimes the printer will even refuse to print until you replace one of the consumables. There are three approaches to this
1) Replace the toner / fuser / photoconductor / transfer belt / whatever
2) Buy a reset fuse for a few £ or $ - it's something like a 100mA, 250v fuse
3) Short the fuse connectors - this is free, explained as follows
What to do
If you chose 3) above here's what to do.Remove the consumable from the machine. Inspect it from every angle for a pair of metal strips behind which is a fuse. Ping these metal contacts off, remove the fuse but then replace the fuse wrapped in kitchen foil. Replace the metal contacts and place the consumable back in the printer.
(There may be more than one pair so so find the correct pair to ping off).
When you start the printer the controller will register the old consumable as a new one and reset its counter. You can print a Status sheet to see if that's happened if you like, but the last thing to do is to undo what you just did, removing the aluminium foil.
Responding to
https://www.fixyourownprinter.com/posts/57420
Warning
This is not a good thing to do if the part that that needs replacing eventually breaks up inside your machine. That's me imagining the worst. But as I listed above I don't care too much about this printer.
USB to parallel adaptor - by the way
The network interface on my C2000N seems to have failed so I was stuck trying to find a way to print using the parallel interface. I bought a Sabrent USB to parallel adaptor which works well on a modern (2018) computer without any additional software. Prior to this I acquired a USB to parallel adaptor but this was some old cheap thing that required old drivers which failed to work well for me.
