Mac Forum / Country Specific / UK Mac Group / May 2008

Okay, HP LJ 1320n.  6000 page cartridge, printed 8996 pages so far, and
it's been reporting 1% full since I first checked at 7 thousand and
something pages.

It's still printing fine (except for what I mention below), with an
occasional tendency to start showing drop-outs.  So far, I've taken this
cartridge out two or three times for gentle shaking to sort that, but
not for a few weeks.

Right.

What's odd is that I've just printed out two letters.

One is `normal width text'.  That's perfect.

The other was typeset with a slightly wider text block than usual[1] and
has a light streak of toner running down the page, more or less in line
with the right hand edge of the text.

And this is repeatable: print 'em out again, whatever order, and that's
how it comes out.

Has anyone got any idea what might be causing this?  I'm a bit puzzled.

(For sure I could just slam in a new cartridge - but the old one still
has life left in it, and, well, what the bloody hell's going on, eh?)

Rowland.

[1]  Think `narrower margins' if that makes more sense to you.