Q: LaserWriter Select 360 - requesting repair shop locations
I have an Apple LaserWriter Select 360 printer which I believe still has a lot of life in it, so I want to see if it can be repaired. it is more-or-less fully functional, except that it prints out evenly spaced, horizontal black lines on the page, which makes the printer's output unusable for anything but drafts. Also, sometimes the paper would not feed continuously, as if something was slipping and/or failing to pickup the paper and feed it into the printer.
I had taken my LaserWriter Select 360 to a local repair shop, which had always come through for me in the past on other legacy Macs. Unfortunately, over the course of the 18 months (yes, a year-and-a-half) that my printer cluttered up the local repair shop, the shop's owner was unable to obtain the parts he said were necessary to make the repair. So, with my patience exhausted, I reclaimed the printer and set it back up in my small local area network (via my original AsanteTalk network bridge device) to print drafts of a book I am working on.
Ideally, though, I would really like to be able to restore this well-designed, 300,000-page capacity workhorse to full functionality—and clean print-outs—by the time I complete my work-in-progress.
Accordingly, I am asking for any referrals and/or recommendations to printer repair shops in the continental United States which might be able to fix this printer at a reasonable price and allow me to feed paper into its engine without slippage and to deliver clean pages once again. I have done an extensive Google search for such a repair shop, but I have been unable to locate one which can do the job.
Although I have a copy of the service manual and I have visited a few do-it-yourself websites, I am not skilled enough to perform such a repair myself. I need a professional to do this. So, I'm throwing the problem into the community to see if anyone has any recommendations.
PowerMac G4; iMac G5; MacBook Pro., Mac OS X (10.5.8), Running Leopard, Tiger, Panther. LAN. Cloned LaCie FireWire driv
Posted on Mar 4, 2013 7:19 PM