Jeff Liebermann writes:

On 10 Jan 2010 09:42:21 -0500, (Samuel M.
Goldwasser) wrote:

OK, well, cleaned the two large lenses with isopropyl, dusted off the scanner
mirrors, blew out the long mirror. Basically, no change.

Were they obviously dirty?
Did you clean the laser lens?

They were just detectably dusty.

I cleaned both of the large lenses, the optic just after the laser diode
module, dusted off the scanner mirrors, and blew out any dust on the long
turning mirror. There is no window on the output (I seem to recall someone
mentioned something like that).

This is a LaserJet 5, C3916A.

Thanks guys, it's not worth the time to do more to this 12+ year old printer.

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