HP laserjet 5L memory upgrade

I have been using an HP laserjet 5L printer that I was given as a gift (they were throwing it away) and had written a post about it earlier. The memory I bought from that Ebay seller who was kind enough to send me two different types, was not working. Hence I've been searching for a DRAM module since. A few days back I start searching again and to my dismay I was still finding the disturbingly high prices I was finding a year ago. But I had an epiphany, I visited www.pchub.com which has lots of used computer parts and I found a hopefully proper DRAM module for 7$ (with free shipping). I am waiting for it to arrive now and put it to test as soon as possible.

What is more, after about 2-3 years of infrequent use, the new toner was about to end. Hence with 13$ I bought refill toner and the printer is going strong as ever.

Update:

After a couple of weeks I finally received the DRAM put it in the printer and VOILA! It prints 600x600dpi without problems! Hurrah!!!

Kingston KTM-TP750/8 Memory Card 8 MB

HP Laserjet 5L repair

Some time ago, I received an HP 5L laserjet printer from a not so computer savvy friend. I am not sure if she dumped it cause she thought it was broken or just was time for an upgrade.

First thing I did was to get a serial cable through Freecycle.org
Second thing I did was to check the toner and remove the protective tape that was partially removed!!?
Third thing I did was to put some Vaseline on the gray rubber roller that is used to suck paper sheets.
After about a year of little use, I needed to print some long documents. Then the printer started getting funky. It would print some pages ok, it would print some pages half and the other half on the next page, it would not print some pages at all or print some illegible and HUGE fonts.

I was in the process of looking for a new printer focusing on the Lexmark e260d mono or the HP CP1215 color and then by pure chance I read the article in wikipedia about 5L printers. It said this printer was facing some issues due to low memory. It has only 1MB of ram installed and that can be extended to 8+1. An other solution was to reduce printing resolution from 600x600 to 300x300.
After searching online for a suitable DRAM memory module with most of them costing above 20-30$ which is very expensive considering I wanted to buy 8 Megabytes of memory for a 16 year old printer, I came across and Egay offer who sold me an 8Mb and a 16MB dram modules for 3.50£.
I do not suppose the 16MB will be working, or if it does it will only see half of it. I am not either sure that the 8MB will work, cause on the printer says needs a 5V dram and on the actual dram card was no voltage inscription, nor was I able to find such info online for the card itself of the machine the chap who sold it to me used.
Oh well if it breaks, I will decide which laser printer to buy from the two mentioned above.