HP IPC / Thinkjet printhead repair / substitute ?

[Tony Duell]

> 
> 
> I would like to repair the last remaining problem with my HP IPC. : the 
> printer.
> 
> Yes, the previous owner did not remove the inkcartridge and the 
> foil/flatcable  connecting printhead to PCB has been etched clean...

Ah yes... This is a major problem with all Thinkjets. Ink leakage really 
ruins that flexiprint.

> Any repair possible ? Any remaining source of the Thinkjet ones ?
> 
> I have no trouble extending a Thinkjet foil to fit the IPC, but all 
> Thinkjets I locate have exactly the same problem...

All I can tell you is what you already know, I think. The flexiprint is 
the same in all Thinkjets (so you don't have to look for a particular 
interface model). The one in the Integral is longer, but you say you can 
kludge that (IIRC I'd also raid the connector from the logic board of the 
donor thinkjet and not try to solder directly to the end of the 
flexiprint). 

Thinkjets turn up on E-overpay quite often, but they always seem 
'untested' when it comes to actually printing. Which I take to mean that 
they have a corroded flexiprint (what, cynical, me?). 

I could get you the HP part number for the carriage/flexiprint assembly 
(which is how HP supplied it, even though it's not hard to separate 
them), but you are not going to find one now.

-tony