OT: Laser printer hardware maintenance question - ghosti

[Kenneth Brody]

On 6/2/2013 7:41 PM, Walter D Vaughan Jr wrote:
[...]
>>> 2013, Kenneth Brody wrote:
>>>
>>>> We have a color laser printer (Dell 2150cdn) that has started
> "ghosting".
>> [...]
>>>> Does anyone have experience with laser printers ghosting, and do you
>>>> have any suggestions on where to proceed from here?
>>>
>>> Have you tried replacing the yellow toner cartridge?
>>
>> It's on order (I probably should have mentioned that), but I was hoping
>> somebody may already have had experience with such a scenario which
>> didn't require the toner to be replaced.  :-)
>>
>> (Not to mention the obvious question -- "what happens if the new toner
>> cartridge doesn't fix it?")
> [Walter D Vaughan Jr]
>
> I'm not familiar with the guts of the machine you have, but it also could be
> a *fuser* issue. Some printers have the fuser in the cartridge, and on some
> it's a separately serviced part. In your case it is.
> http://www.amazon.com/Dell-2150CDN-Fuser-Assembly-Unit/dp/B00BNXXS16

One of the early troubleshooting suggestions is to replace the fuser. 
(Which we haven't done.)  However, now that the symptom is down to only 
yellow doing the ghosting, and there being a single fuser, I don't believe 
that this is the problem.

Thanks.

-- 
Kenneth Brody