It's a typical VoyagerE call (CS-C2525E). Intermittent poor drum cleaning from the cyan drum blade. I clean & re-prime the cyan & magenta drum blades, then they're both cleaning fine. I give the main body a good vacuuming and clean the laser slit glasses, and re-assemble everything. Then it gets interesting.
I start doing the typical color calibration. Color Calibration goes OK. When I print off the color registration page there are two mischievous little smileys in gray peering at me from the page. This partial scan is enlarged 200%:
Mischevious Smileys.JPG
So I make a second color registration page and the two grey smileys get a couple of nearly identical yellow smiley buddies. I find myself looking around (Is there a camera somewhere? Am I being punked?). The only person nearby has been popping in every few minutes, and I've been trying to ignore him.
I make another color registration page and the cyan smileys make they're appearance, with their gray & yellow pals. It 4:30 pm, and if I was going to screw with somebody this is how I would do it. Still no cameras. No one watching ...
My smiley pals are appearing at 96mm intervals so I know they're on the drums, but I just got done looking at the drums? The transfer belt has an image of the two smileys. K, Y, & C drums also have the same two smileys but it's some kind of weird white crystalline ... I don't know what. And it's difficult to scrub off with lamp oil. Thank goodness these drums are tough.
The contaminant clearly came from the transfer belt, and transferred to all but magenta (at the far end), but I still have no clue where it came from. After some scrubbing and color calibration the copies look good and I'm packing up. From behind me the guy that has been popping in says "Oh sorry! I spilled some pop on your invoice book ...". He's holding a mostly empty two liter of Mountain Dew, and my invoice book is sitting right where the transfer belt was.
It was Mountain Dew! And since it's nearly pure sugar, that's what the white crusty stuff was on the drums, crystallized sugar. On one of those dozen trips to top up his Mountain Dew he donated a few drops to my transfer belt.
This would be an interesting way to initiate the newbie. =^..^=
I start doing the typical color calibration. Color Calibration goes OK. When I print off the color registration page there are two mischievous little smileys in gray peering at me from the page. This partial scan is enlarged 200%:
Mischevious Smileys.JPG
So I make a second color registration page and the two grey smileys get a couple of nearly identical yellow smiley buddies. I find myself looking around (Is there a camera somewhere? Am I being punked?). The only person nearby has been popping in every few minutes, and I've been trying to ignore him.
I make another color registration page and the cyan smileys make they're appearance, with their gray & yellow pals. It 4:30 pm, and if I was going to screw with somebody this is how I would do it. Still no cameras. No one watching ...
My smiley pals are appearing at 96mm intervals so I know they're on the drums, but I just got done looking at the drums? The transfer belt has an image of the two smileys. K, Y, & C drums also have the same two smileys but it's some kind of weird white crystalline ... I don't know what. And it's difficult to scrub off with lamp oil. Thank goodness these drums are tough.
The contaminant clearly came from the transfer belt, and transferred to all but magenta (at the far end), but I still have no clue where it came from. After some scrubbing and color calibration the copies look good and I'm packing up. From behind me the guy that has been popping in says "Oh sorry! I spilled some pop on your invoice book ...". He's holding a mostly empty two liter of Mountain Dew, and my invoice book is sitting right where the transfer belt was.
It was Mountain Dew! And since it's nearly pure sugar, that's what the white crusty stuff was on the drums, crystallized sugar. On one of those dozen trips to top up his Mountain Dew he donated a few drops to my transfer belt.
This would be an interesting way to initiate the newbie. =^..^=
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