how could an amateur fix dirty copies on a EP5000

[rstarck]

Recently i took a partially used toner cartridge out and put back in and spilled a little while doing it. i'm not wanting to necessarily connect this event with the fact the somewhat recently our copies have started to look dirty but it could be related. Pasted below is a scanned dirty sheet. I've also attached pictures of inside the copier where it looks like my partial spill of the toner and the copier spilling it itself are shown. My question is how i can clean/fix this myself, as an amatuer?

dirty copy:


pictures of inside the copier:

[copytechman]

Your dirty copies and the toner spill are most likely unrelated to each other, its rarely that toner on the covers can cause cq issues in my opinion.

Regards!
A.

[Blenk]

this dose not look like it has anything to do with the toner spill, i have seen a lot worse. to me it looks like small scratches on the drum, the way to tell is to print out an A3 copy, then look at the little lines on the copys, try and find a cluster and see if this cluster repeats its self across the page, if these marks have a pattern to them, its most likely to be a damaged drum, they will move across the page, like left to right on your A3 sheet, but if your marks have a pattern, and appear the same on all copys only moving left to right across the page, im sure the drum will be dammaged, as an amateur, do u know how to get the drum out and have a look? you may have to have it replaced.

[buster68]

If you used genuine Minolta toner, you wouldn't have the copyquality problem. The developer needs to be changed, with new genuine Minolta Starter, and use genuine toner. As for the spill...what spill? That machine looks spotless compared to some EP5000s I've seen.

[kink#2]

look like blent is right on the drum is bad.
and you may have a 2nd problem with the mylar under
the cleaning blade.

[brent]

I will chime in and bet it is the drum as well. although the anti spill mylar under the drum COULD be bad. you generally don't get small lines like are in the sample. you would get spuratic dots in no pattern or sequence. these drums just don't last and I have had several develop the small (lines) like in the copy above. the kicker is he wants to fix it himself. where I could verify the problem in a minute. he said he was an amateur. so he would have to take the drum unit out and he could simply see it on the drum. so rstarack are you going to call a technician or try a drum replacement on your own?

brent

[Darren King]

Make a copy of something at 100%. Then make a copy at a reduced zoom. If the dots reduce with the image on the copy it isn't the drum. If the dots stay roughly where they were before then it is in the image unit or fuser. BTW is the copy you posted taken with something on the glass, or is it a copy of the DF belt?