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Phaser 340 serial number format changes
New printers have a “B6” serial number. For reasons related to export codes and
“country-of-origin”, the serial number format on Phaser 340 Color Printers has
changed. Manufacturing discovered that the use of the double-alpha prefixes
“BB,” “BC,” “BD,” and BE,” was in violation of a previous agreement with the
U. S. government.
Refer to the first three digits instead of only two. New printers ship with “B6E”
instead of “BE” as the serial number prefix. The entire serial number has a
simpler format of BYRxxxx where:
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B = Beaverton
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Y = Year (0-9)
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L = Revision level (range 0 thru 9 and A thru Z; base 34)
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xxxx = numerical values only (0-9)
This format supports only 10,000 printers, but the revision level can be rolled for
the next 10,000 printers. There is no duplication of “B6” numbers on the
Phaser 340 because of the range of previous B6 numbers that were issued.
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