[Hudlug] Fwd: [newbie] Brother printer - heads up

[Anne Wilson]

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Don't know if anyone here uses one of these printers at home or work, but=
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thought I should pass on the warning

Anne

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Subject: [newbie] Brother printer - heads up
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 11:36:12 -0500
From: Carroll Grigsby <cgrigs@earthlink.net>
To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com

If you have a Brother HL-1040, HL-1050, HL-1060 or MFC-P2000, be aware th=
at
they are the subject of a factory recall campaign. There is a problem wit=
h
the fuser cartridges (the expensive one) that can cause a fire. Details a=
re
available at www.brother.com/usa. They'll give you the name of whoever
handles Brother service in your area. You'll have to take the printer the=
re
along with a printed copy of the recall page, and they will replace the f=
user
cartridge. In my case (Raleigh NC), the local guy says that the fusers ar=
e on
backorder, and they wouldn't/couldn't give me a date when they will have =
the
replacements. Moral: Call ahead. The upside is that mine is almost 4 year=
s
old, and was probably due for replacement soon.

Even though this message may be OT, I'm posting it because the recall has=
 not
been widely publicized. I only found out about it by accident when I visi=
ted
the Brother site for another purpose and saw this little note up in the
corner of their home page. For some reason, Brother doesn't seem to have =
made
any attempt to directly contact registered owners, although they've never
hesitated to send me e-mails about their latest and greatest. (And yes, I
_did_ register my printer.)

HTH someone --
-- cmg

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