HP 4050N series printer ghosting

over time and use, printers obviously become old and sometime unusable however what some fail to look at is what the problem is that they may be having at the time. with the HP 4050N laserjet it will "ghost" or appear to reprint the image done the left handside of the page there is a easy solution to this and it doenst require changing the toner.

It will cost a lot of money but all you have to do is change the fuser in the printer after this is done it will no longer "ghost" the image down the side of the page. The fuser can cost as little as £50 but this is off eBay. if you buy from a trusted supplier such as amazon it may cost you £170. the best option may be to buy a Maintenance kit from amazon that includes all you need including the fuser.

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Using MSDOS to show, copy then import

If you are new to MSDOS it can be rather confusing but with a bit of practise and a lot of research on the internet you can learn how to use it and use it well.

Here is some commands you may find useful, it shows files that are on a particular Hard drive or Network drive. it can display system files and folders aswell as you own folders and files in your documents folder.

To Show documents in a DOS you have to either change the drive letter or type the directory of the drive letter. This can be done by either typing in:

D:\ , C:\, E:\.....ect, this command will change what what drive you are in as standard DOS is already in the C:\ drive, which appears as your "Local Drive" in "My Computer".

If you want to view the directory of a drive without changing the letter the command is:

Dir C:, Dir D:, Dir E:.....Ect. all you have to do is type "Dir" and the letter of the drive you wish to view the files of.

now for the copying of files from DOS to a document on your hard drive. this is simple if you know how and even if you dont know it will soon be easy enough for you to do. When you have the files of the drive you want in DOS the command to copy that information to a text file on your harddrive is:

Dir (Enter your Drive letter):\> (Enter the destination Drive Letter):\ mytext.txt

This command copies all the information from the drive you have specified to a document that it creates automatically to the destionation drive or folder.

if you are going to import that information to Microsoft Office programs, it can be as easy as just opening the file but sometime you will have to import the data. if you have used Office before, of which im sure you have, you'll be familiar with importing

If you need any extra help heres a good site:

http://www.computerhope.com/msdos.htm