OT: Laser printer hardware maintenance question - ghosti

[Jim Asman]

--------------- Original Message ---------------
At 04:52P Sun Jun 02 2013, Kenneth Brody wrote:

> We have a color laser printer (Dell 2150cdn) that has started "ghosting". 
> Specifically, when printing a large solid area of color, only the outer 
> border of the region prints, and the toner that should have been the rest of 
> the "inside" prints a few inches below where it should be.  (Lines and text 
> print fine.)
> 
> I have run some Dell-recommended maintenance on it, including using a laser 
> printer cleaner sheet, and it has gotten better.  However, the yellow toner 
> still exhibits the same behavior.  (When printing a ghosting test page, the 
> black, cyan, and magenta are perfect.)
> 
> We've had the printer 2 years (in fact, the printer says it was initialized 
> 26-May-2011, so it's almost exactly 2 years to the day) and the status 
> report says we've printer 4763 color pages and 5523 black pages.
> 
> Does anyone have experience with laser printers ghosting, and do you have 
> any suggestions on where to proceed from here?
> 

Ken,

Have you tried replacing the yellow toner cartridge?



Jim 
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