DC 265st ADF skews image

newuser · 10-07-2009

I just picked up a dinosaur that seems to be in great condition with a relative low click count, but I seem to have an issue. On simple text copies you really can't notice it, which is what I used to demo it, but with any document that has lines or a border, the bottom right of the page seems to be pulled to the edge slightly. The top of the page is perfect, but as you move down the page it stretches the border to the right and at the bottom it is moved by about .25" from the top. It does not skew when copying off the glass, or printing.

Does anyone have an idea on this? I also have a question regarding networked scanning, but alas, won't ask right now.

tech9 · 10-08-2009

Push down on the front of the adf and see if it makes a difference, if it does go to the rear of the machine the back of tghe dadf there is a torque screw to adjust the height.

newuser · 10-08-2009

Pure simplicity, but it didn't work. There didn't seem to be any wiggle room on the adf that I could discern. Looking at the setup, there is a document roller with a drive belt attached to it in on the bottom of the adf (part that touches the glass. The belt is on the side that is skewing, which is starting to make sense now as I think of it logically.

The side that is skewing is the side that gets pulled through the adf first, and if that's the side that has the drive belt, might be pulled ever so slightly faster than the rest of the page causing the skew. Is there a way to adjust the roller at all or to compensate? I thought for sure adding some pressure would result in a fix, but it seems Xerox thought things through the shell of the adf is rigid and will not give at all. The internals are very flexible, but no way to apply pressure or adjust tension that I can see.

newuser · 10-08-2009

Funny thing I just thought I would try, seems that it is only the first page that is really affected by it. I just ran 25 pages of bordered docs through and it really skewed the first page, but every page after was close to perfect (<.10"). Until I find something to fix it, I'm just going to run a blank page in first for all copies made in the ADF.

Thanks for your help, and please let me know if you can think of a way to adjust this!