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I'm a cheap dude & after much research I bought a 2200dtn July 2008. Except for duplex jams & lan cards that kept failing, it served my family faithfully until July 2012. Then it emitted a terrible grinding noise like a plastic gear was stripped & I searched fruitlessly for the broken gear. The big IC on the lan card gets alternately really hot & then really cold & eventually the thermal stress breaks a few solder connections. Believe it or not, the fix is to put it in your oven at a temp just above the solder melting point for a little while & then let it cool down. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3AJetDirect for the procedure. First time I did it, I thought this can't possibly work, but I had nothing to lose but a dead card. Brought it right back to life! The duplex jams turned out to be HP putting some sound dampening stuff on the solenoid that controls the duplex unit. After time, the stuff deteriorates & gums up the solenoid. There is a simple fix, replace the stuff with better stuff, see http://www.fixyourownprinter.com/forums/laser/28556 Great site & they sell enough of the better stuff to fix at least 5 printers for $10 including s/h. The reason these printers are so inexpensive is that HP sold a zillion of them & then came out with a new improved model & no one wanted to buy it because these were working so well. So the salesmen made everybody a deal to trade in their old 2200 for the new improved model. That filled HPs warehouses with 2200s & they probably needed the space & unleashed a flood of 2200s on the surplus marketplace. And as everybody knows, a flood of anything, even high quality printers ='s absurdly low prices. Industrial quality printers for the price of a toner cartridge. And all the IT departments flooded eBay with their now useless collection of used cartridges. I bought 10 & refilled them, a lifetime supply... Anyway, when my 4 year old (to me) 2200tdn failed, I already had lots of toner cartridges in the closet & knew how to work on it, so I bought not one but two! One was a 2200dtn & the other was a 2200d as I had all the parts to upgrade it to a 2200dtn (2200d + a HP 615n JetDirect EIO card (there are others, this just happens to be what my old printer had in it. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JetDirect for a complete list & their features) & the C7065 500 sheet feeder/tray 3 ='s a 2200dtn) And don't forget to max out the memory. Two C7845A 32MB DIMMs will set you back under $15 w/shipping & you will probably never see a 30017 out of memory error code. I haven't.Read full review
For a plain vanilla device, this printer is a great bargain. This runt of the HP printer family provides reliable basic dual-sided, black and white printing, Standard laser footprint, no control panel to decipher and lights that are green and amber for go or no go. I bought this puppy to print dual-sided documents and ebooks which it does faithfully. The owners manual should read: Love your mongrel mutt of a printer. For years of loyal service, please provide clean power, attach to computer with a sturdy cable and feed paper as needed. Offer it a print job as much as desired and you will be rewarded with a joyful quietly printed document in no time.
The paper feeder in the big tray tears the paper and causes the paper to jam. I had to use my old big tray from my old printer to make it work. Otherwise l would have returned it.
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