HP Formatter Boards

[Lasersupplies]

We have formatter issues with HP4730s. We keep replacing the boards and have built up a stock of faulty units. Does anyone know of companies in UK or Europe that specialize in the repair of formatter boards or copier/printer board repair in general.

[Hansoon]

Re: HP Formatter Boards

The good ol' oven tricks doesn't work for this one? I used it for the HP-3005 series with great success.

Hans

[JustManuals]

Re: HP Formatter Boards

The good ol' oven tricks doesn't work for this one? I used it for the HP-3005 series with great success.

Hans

That is just what I was going to suggest too, you beat me to it. Finally something as a former printer tech I could help out with. Oh well, that's me, a day late and a buck short...

[servicemax]

Re: HP Formatter Boards

Try hytecrepair.com and nwrsinc.com

[canonbundy]

Re: HP Formatter Boards

We have formatter issues with HP4730s. We keep replacing the boards and have built up a stock of faulty units. Does anyone know of companies in UK or Europe that specialize in the repair of formatter boards or copier/printer board repair in general.

Justabeshoor, what IS a Formatter Board, a mate of mine repairs HP gadgets and blames the 'Formatter Boards' constantly but cannot explain to me just what they are - in the Copier World PCBs are RAM, DIMM, IMAGE, SYSTEM, Main etc. - just curious, thanks.

[Hansoon]

Re: HP Formatter Boards

Justabeshoor, what IS a Formatter Board, a mate of mine repairs HP gadgets and blames the 'Formatter Boards' constantly but cannot explain to me just what they are - in the Copier World PCBs are RAM, DIMM, IMAGE, SYSTEM, Main etc. - just curious, thanks.

Phew.... Glad you asked that question. I never dared to ask myself, was wondering all the time and thought it was only me being that uneducated in technical matters. "Formatter Board"? Has that something to do with formatting something?



Hans

[ucinn]

Re: HP Formatter Boards

Phew.... Glad you asked that question. I never dared to ask myself, was wondering all the time and thought it was only me being that uneducated in technical matters. "Formatter Board"? Has that something to do with formatting something?



Hans

In copiers it is called the controller board. Has the memory, hard drive, network interface, parrallel and serial ports etc..

[Hansoon]

Re: HP Formatter Boards

Yes, I understand what it is and what it does. But why "Formatter"?

Hans

[ucinn]

Re: HP Formatter Boards

Yes, I understand what it is and what it does. But why "Formatter"?

Hans

Because it sounds more technical than thingamajig.

[canonbundy]

Re: HP Formatter Boards

Because it sounds more technical than thingamajig.

Thanks for the assist guys, Thingamajig actually makes more sense than FORMATTER - All right lets break it down a bit....FORM :- something you fill in. MAT :- something you stand on. TER :- hmmm? MATTER :- it doesn't!

Ok Paul, you're the ex printer Guru with all the manuals, how about some input, we neeeed to knowww.