Cold weather & printers

[Alma J Wetzker]

Vu Pham wrote:
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: linux-users-bounces at linux-sxs.org 
>>[mailto:linux-users-bounces at linux-sxs.org] On Behalf Of Ken Leyba
>>Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 11:30 AM
>>To: linux-users at linux-sxs.org
>>Subject: Re: Cold weather & printers
>>
>>Just for grins I looked up the operating evironment for a HP 
>>Laserjet 4240 and the specs say:
>>
>>Environmental condition Printing 10? to 32?C (50? to 90?F) 
>>Storage/standby Temperature (printer and print cartridge) 0? 
>>to 35?C (32? to 95?F)
>>
>>I would look at the specs for your printer and it looks like 
>>they are operating out of spec.  Plus if the temperature 
>>varies drastically the expansion and contraction of 
>>components are probably creating havoc. 
>>I'd have them do something about the environment or tell them 
>>that they cannot expect support for the printers.
>>
> 
> 
> This morning they called and said the Zebra printer displays "Warning : Cold
> Head".
> The other one which pairs with this one is a cheap HP Laser printer. It
> doesn't work either. I am sure their operating temperature would be
> something 50 or so.

Is this a Zebra label printer that uses thermal transfer films to print 
labels?  If so, the one that I used worked great, as long as the temp 
did not change too much.  Those things were _VERY_ dependent on the 
weather.  We finally had to position it in the warehouse office to keep 
it running year round.  Temperature could make a big difference to the 
fool thing.

     -- Alma