IBM Personal Page Printer II 4216

[NeXT]

I picked this up last weekend at MECO and have been letting it dehumidify the last few days. Plugged it in and I get power, I get lights, I get motors and it comes up to a blinking READY with no errors on the display. Came with a stack of test prints as well so when it was originally for sale it made perfect prints.
Google points at the -020 model which seems to be an earlier version where the print engine RIP was on a card in the host computer. This is a later model from August 1987 where it seems serial, parallel and Appletalk support are all built-in and configured by dip switches along with a PostScript/PCL interpreter and 2mb ram.
The Internet also implies it's based around the RICOH-6000 print engine. It did not come with a drum cartridge installed but the purchase came with two extra and boxed drum cartridges. Before I put a new drum in it needs to be cleaned because the sealing edge of the toner refill hopper has failed and there is toner everywhere. One of the paper eject belts has also broken apart with age.
One thing I'm noticing is the fuser is not heating up. I have not removed the lamp to see if it's gone open but was that interlocked with the drum cartridge? There is two pieces of scanned documentation for the printer on archive.org but they seem to be in German. Presumably all the archived diskettes for this printer also are for the 020 model.

 

[NeXT]

I was supposed to get photos up last night but while cleaning the printer inside and out (plus replacing the mentioned belt and adjusting the two eject rollers) I realized the printer wasn't actually going ready. After a minute or two of blinking the READY light it throws a CHECK 4 because the fuser warmup times out. After some investigating I found power is reaching the fuser lamp terminals but the halogen lamp itself is reading as open.

The lamp seems to be rated for 115v 400W. Total length from end to end (including the ceramic sleeves the printer uses to hold it) is 32cm maximum. As one might expect for a 36 year old printer I am having no luck finding replacement fuser lamps, fuser maintenance kits or anything close enough to the original to substitute. I did however find a more detailed list of printers that use the same print engine (and very likely the same internal components):

Ricoh PC Laser 6000
Texas Instruments OmniLaser 2106
Okidata Laserline 6
EPSON GQ-3500
Siemens HighPrint-8
Tandy LP-1000

Same as googling the IBM 4216. I can find replacement toner and OPC drum kits but no other components. I can't even find any recent history sale listings for a printer to cannibalize for parts. These things must of all met the E-waste fate in the 2000's.
By the way, I also noticed during cleaning my printer started out life as a 4216-020 which is the smarts-less version and was upgraded at one point with a sticker to designate it's now an -030 and a board swap which gives it a full 68K-based print processing system. I'll try to get photos put up tonight since there are otherwise no photos of this printer that exist online.

 

[NeXT]

Aaaaand I deliver.

Lastly here's the fuser lamp. I'm not entirely sure what happened. The lamp itself is not broken but the tabs on the end where the lead wires are bonded through the quartz envelope are. I didn't see any signs the printer has been mishandled so I'm not really sure if thermal cycling was to blame or something else.

 

[ardent-blue]

Never seen an -030 before. Looks like they were built new and you have proof that the -020 were upgraded.

Announcement 189-012 IBM PERSONAL PAGE PRINTER II (4216-030) all I got so far

Missing some files, but maybe the -020 to -030 was an RPO, and not contained in an announcement letter.

I -think- you have the 2MB RAM upgrade, see the upside-down PCB to the left of the font ROMs?

SHSA380098.BOO [A9ba0000.boo] Laser Printers: Service Info and Parts Catalog comes up, reports a 3.1MB size, but is blank. Grr.