In our experience the answerer is correct, there is a known issue with the formatter board. I understand that these were produced at a moment when board technology was changing, I think to reduce the amount of heavy metals in the solder or whatever, and there was a period where they were prone to random failures of the solder. We replaced a bunch of 1320's and 1160's (boy those things were reliable!) when they became scarce. Basically we keep a handful or two of inexpensive hp lasers (we look for good deals on lots on ebay, often found them for even 50 or 75 bucks, they are maybe 20 bucks more now) on desktops as convenience printers for our employees, and keep a few spares on the shelf. If they stop working we swap them out, and when we have time, we see if we can easily fix them and put them back in rotation or keep them for parts (like formatter boards!) [br]
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We've had the formatter board issue on a couple of the 2015's. One thing to note is that most of our units have been fine, have operated for years without this problem. We have purchased a number of formatter boards on ebay for a few bucks and swapped them out, it just takes a few minutes. I think we received 1 bad replacement. So we're limping them along, I also understand that "reflowing" can work, but for what it costs to get formatter board pulls, and take your chances on a bum one.[br]
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We've had the formatter board issue on a couple of the 2015's. One thing to note is that most of our units have been fine, have operated for years without this problem. We have purchased a number of formatter boards on ebay for a few bucks and swapped them out, it just takes a few minutes. I think we received 1 bad replacement. So we're limping them along, I also understand that "reflowing" can work, but for what it costs to get formatter board pulls, we just take our chances.[br]
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So I wouldn't panic about nursing them along, but I would recommend keeping a spare handy. For the price and quality, these old HP workgroup printers can't be beat for the price of low page corporate pulls, availability of inexpensive high yield toner, parts, service manuals and you gotta love youtube to see what it takes to service them. We find them pretty easy to repair.
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So I wouldn't panic about nursing them along, but I would recommend keeping a spare handy. For the price and quality, these old HP workgroup printers can't be beat for the price for low page corporate pulls, availability of inexpensive high yield toner, parts, service manuals and you gotta love youtube to see what it takes to service them. We find them pretty easy to repair. I would guess the sweet spot today would be the p2035's or 2055's which seem available for around 125-150
In our experience the answerer is correct, there is a known issue with the formatter board. I understand that these were produced at a moment when board technology was changing, I think to reduce the amount of heavy metals in the solder or whatever, and there was a period where they were prone to random failures of the solder. We replaced a bunch of 1320's and 1160's (boy those things were reliable!) when they became scarce. Basically we keep a handful or two of inexpensive hp lasers (we look for good deals on lots on ebay, often found them for even 50 or 75 bucks, they are maybe 20 bucks more now) on desktops as convenience printers for our employees, and keep a few spares on the shelf. If they stop working we swap them out, and when we have time, we see if we can easily fix them and put them back in rotation or keep them for parts (like formatter boards!) [br]
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We've had the formatter board issue on a couple of the 2015's. One thing to note is that most of our units have been fine, have operated for years without this problem. We have purchased a number of formatter boards on ebay for a few bucks and swapped them out, it just takes a few minutes. I think we received 1 bad replacement. So we're limping them along, I also understand that "reflowing" can work, but for what it costs to get formatter board pulls, and take your chances on a bum one.[br]
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So I wouldn't panic about nursing them along, but I would recommend keeping a spare handy. For the price and quality, these old HP workgroup printers can't be beat for the price of low page corporate pulls, availability of inexpensive high yield toner, parts, service manuals and you gotta love youtube to see what it takes to service them. We find them pretty easy to repair.