[colug-432] Printer Repair

Angelo McComis angelo at mccomis.com
Thu Feb 11 13:59:12 EST 2016


On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 1:43 PM, tom <thomas.w.cranston at gmail.com> wrote:

> Any idea what the battery is for, or what it is saving? Is it common to
> have batteries in printers?
>
>
​Since this thing has been around since pre-2000, it's likely that for that
era of printer, it has some kind of low level BIOS in it. The battery keeps
that NVRAM​

​warm, I would imagine.

Newer ones have their own higher level OS and web servers and other things
in them.
​
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