Basic Tips for Printer Care

Your desktop printer is no vulnerable tool that requires a thousand precautions and high maintenance. You can take some basic care of it to make it run well and last you a good number of years. At HP technical support, we some safety guidelines keep you from getting injured as well. Remember that it is a device that gets hot while printing, contains chemicals, works on electricity and has parts moving inside. It is only good common sense to be mindful of any technical device. 



Place the printer on a stable base

Always set up your printer on a stable base. Especially in case of printers that weigh more than twenty-five pounds – when such printers do their usual little shaking while printing, it is a strong table that will be able to stand the impact well. Choose one sturdy piece of furniture for placing it. At HP printer support, we believe it is a small step you can take to ensure there is no damage to either the printer, the table or the other objects placed around.

Take precautions for mechanical hazards

The rubber rollers feed the printer with the papers placed on the trays. But these rollers may end up pulling dangling jewellery, long hair or anything similar that it finds hanging loose nearby. So when the printer is at work, it is important to keep such things and even your hands away from the feeding tray. If you are using one of those large-format printers that commonly engineers, architects or art departments use, be all the more careful. Technicians at HP printer support phone number often give our clients such extra tips for safety. It does well if you read the user manuals carefully.

Be aware of the hot components

While printing, the laser and LED printers press paper to a metal drum. This drum has an image that is made of toner powder (a fine plastic material). This toner, when heated, is melted and bound with the paper. After some time of work in this manner, the laser printers get very hot on the inside. Therefore, to open a printer, first let it cool down for at least ten minutes when you want to change the toner cartridge or look into a paper jam. Also pass on this information to the people around you. At HP printer customer care, you will find a lot of printer related solutions, but not one for a burnt finger.

Be mindful of the electrical method

The basic precautions that we take for any electronic device also holds good for your printer. The outlet where you plug the cord in should be in good condition. See to it that the cord does not get torn or damaged and keep it from a place where people may trip on it and fall. When you unplug the printer suddenly, half printed pages may get jammed. So always turn off the power button to turn the printer off. At HP printer chat support, we also request our clients to keep their printers away from moist environment and switch it off first when you need to take out any of its parts.

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