{"id":378,"date":"2005-12-25T17:37:03","date_gmt":"2005-12-26T01:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/25\/dead-printer\/"},"modified":"2005-12-25T17:37:03","modified_gmt":"2005-12-26T01:37:03","slug":"dead-printer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/25\/dead-printer\/","title":{"rendered":"Dead Printer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spacejase.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\">Jason<\/a> and Alicia had an old all-in-one <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epinions.com\/offc-review-4D43-21436F4E-39EDE138-prod4\" target=\"_blank\">HP OfficeJet G55xi printer<\/a>. It was retired because Jason couldn&#8217;t figure out why it wouldn&#8217;t power up. <\/p>\n<p>After inheriting it from Jason, I Googled around and found very little information on it, mainly probably because the printer didn&#8217;t really have any issues. The only information I found pointed me to replacing a part on the printer from gray market (and that source was at least a couple of years old).<\/p>\n<p>Not settling with Google search results, I asked Chee-hoi, the electric engineering and DIY wizard, to at least test the power supply so that I could rule out one variable at a time. But it turned out that the power supply was in perfect working condition. He then took apart the printer in hope to identify maybe a faulty component. He said if we could locate what was damaged (most likely the power regulator of some sort), I could&#8217;ve bought a replacement chip and have someone solder it back on, and the printer may work just fine. But HP took the precaution of using very tiny specialized screws that Chee-hoi didn&#8217;t have the driver for. So we gave up.<\/p>\n<p>I think I am going to post it on Craigslist to see if some other geek wants it for free.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry, Harlows. I tried. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jason and Alicia had an old all-in-one HP OfficeJet G55xi printer. It was retired because Jason couldn&#8217;t figure out why it wouldn&#8217;t power up. After inheriting it from Jason, I Googled around and found very little information on it, mainly probably because the printer didn&#8217;t really have any issues. The only information I found pointed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/25\/dead-printer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dead Printer&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-day-to-day-life","category-geek-stuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p54IqZ-66","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}