OT: Laser printer hardware maintenance question - ghosting

[daN baueR]

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Not sure if this is any help but on some of the early laser printers you
could manually clean the corona wire. A careful swipe with a q-tip would do
the trick.

Dan Bauer


On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 4:52 PM, Kenneth Brody <kenbrody at spamcop.net> 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?
>
> Thank you.
>
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> Kenneth Brody
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