Toast, Anyone?

While making cards or scrapbooking, I like to print on overhead transparencies with my laser printer. They make nice overlays for the cards, especially. I was in a hurry the other day and I grabbed what I thought was a transparency sheet. I fed it into the printer and my whole world collapsed! It wasn't an overhead transparency, it was just a piece of plastic used to keep special papers from sticking together. It melted in the printer.

I took the printer to a computer store in town and asked the guy if it could be fixed. I don't think he even looked at it. Sure, he took it to a back room and then I heard him sigh (loudly enough for me to hear clear out in the front of the store) "Oh, boy!" He came back out with the printer and said that it was toast. The plastic had melted on the whatchamacallit and that was death to a printer. He just happened to have one like mine in the store. And only one. I'd better get it soon before it was sold. Yeah, and I'll buy that bridge from you, too!

I took the printer home. Since it was toast, I thought I'd look for myself. I took it apart but there was no way I could even get to the whatchamacallit to see if there was any plastic on it! How did that guy do it so quickly? I bet he didn't even open the printer. Well, it really doesn't matter, now, does it? It still doesn't work. After an afternoon of struggling to get it all back together again (it came apart so-o-o-o easily), I plugged it in and - nothing. The 3 indicator lights just keep on flashing. It won't print. It won't do anything. It just sits there mocking me. Now I have to buy another one with non-existing money.

I wonder if my geek, uh, er, my tech (yeah, my tech) son can fix it.