My dear laser printer finally seemed beyond repair. It had been sporting this label for years and I saved the label when I took the printer to the local solid waste district.

Perhaps what I was thinking with the sign was that I could use the printer to find bugs and eliminate them. It must have done its job well because I singlehandedly went through two or three toner cartridges with it. The black and white original design was made with an early version of Microsoft WordArt. Another inspiration for the message was the Terminator films.

By the end, the automatic feed wasn’t working so that I had to manually feed the paper into it. Also, the drum had some spots on it so that it left a few black spots on the prints.

It was a Brother HL-5240. The printer was released in 2005 and I still used it in 2024. Perhaps it could have kept going if I would have done some extra maintenance?

It was a real workhorse and got plenty of use out of it.