Repairing your printer  These days, is it worth repairing your
printer? The answer is usually no. This is the case with all low
end printers. These printers, usually marketed as suitable for
small office, home office (SOHO) or home use, are built as
cheaply as possible and are not worth repairing. They have
plastic or very lightweight steel chassis and are built to be
put together quickly. Usually if you attempt to open them up you
will see that there are no screws holding them together, just
plastic clips. The printed circuit boards are very thin and even
some of the joins holding parts onto the chassis are just
plastic soldered on. Don’t believe for a minute that printer
manufacturers make a loss on selling printers with the intention
of making it up from selling cartridges! The manufacturers make
a profit selling printers, so if you pay $100 for a printer you
can be sure it was made for a lot less.  Basically you could say
that cheaper printers have inbuilt obsolescence, so they are
designed to be thrown o