Hp laserjet p1505 formatter board

The issue with cheap printers like the p1505 is when they begin to break down, the parts tend to cost more than a new one (or a low-use used replacement). They're like inkjets in the sense they are disposable, they just changed the printing material and added laser printer parts with a cheaper cost per page (marginally). Their disposable nature alone makes it hard to find parts like the formatter board. However, sometimes you can buy these parts when they become available but it can be very hard to find due to the original cost of the printer, a similar new one (even with toner DRM), and how many get discarded. Sometimes if you know someone who may be scrapping one in IT that's a possible lead (like if I landed a deal where I had to take the low-end printer for the good stuff I’d be okay with giving it away if someone needed a similar unit to use old ink. I have 2 good ones, an HP M401n and a C3326) you may end up with a entire machine for free we don't have a use for since a lot of us run bigger office models, not $150-~200 entry level units like this due to the supply costs. The only thing I can do with them well is put a magazine of ammo though them if nobody wants it and I need a physical target, or put Tannerite in and have at it. I don’t try and hide it so I’m not sorry about that.

If you really want to replace it your best bet is usually to get one with a major fault like a bad fuser and pull it from there if you can’t just buy the formatter. My experience with all of these cheap lasers is they’re built down to a price anyway so a modern one will not be any worse off for build quality than this, but it likely has more toner DRM if it isn't a Brother.

The reason I detest these low-end (read: DISPOSABLE) printers comes down to how cheaply made they are. I would rather buy my M401n again (if I can still get them with low page counts, think 10-20k pages; beyond that is probably too high) or repair a 10-year-old 75k page workhorse HP without toner DRM if it broke and I needed another spare to deploy if this one breaks. At least with my dead C3426 it was unfixable due to a bad controller but it was worth attempting the repair because it is considered to be a proper “business class” color laser (with higher operating costs vs a mono because color).