CLC 3200 Colour Registration etc
Hi Techie's.
We run an old CLC 3200 machine which is causing me grief.
The problem first appeared a number of months ago and I spent an age trying to fix it. At first I was getting a problem with toner being printed along the length of an A3 sheet. It was about 10mm wide.
When I removed the ITB unit there was a toner stripe running right around the belt. I cleaned the belt with "Isoclean" and it ran fine for a little while, then it returned again. Subsequent cleaning had the same effect. I had cleaned the "Cleaning Blade" and eventually a more thorough cleaning did the trick.
However, another problem developed. The colour registration was all over the place. Doing a full Autograd didn't make any difference, and I repeated this a couple of times before I noticed on the print-outs that the four colours started at different positions. The difference was about 5mm.
Checking on the forums the suggestions were to clean the DC-Con file, and possibly restore the settings manually. At this point I hesitated for fear of wrecking the whole system.
I contacted an engineer that I had used in the past and he came to check it out. I believe he cleared the DC-Con and when the machine was rebooted the DC-Con files were all fine. He then needed to do something about the paper sizes on the Stack Bypass.
Everything has been going well until last week when running 1000 SRA3 sheets, and the colour registration moved on the last 50 sheets. Subsequent attempts have given the same result. Doing a full Autograd has the colours miss-aligned again.
The engineer who helped in the past isn't able to at this point in time, so I have cleaned the DC-Con and again after rebooting the info is still there. However, paper sizes are not recognized when sheets are put into the stack-bypass.
Sorry for this 'Epistle' but I need to know what I need to do to set the paper sizes for the Stack-bypass. Also, while I cleaned the DC-con, should I have done anything else?
Something else has just happened today, when the machine was switched on it gave the error code E000020-0181 which I know if for the yellow drum, which isn't very old. Pulling the drum out slightly and putting it back before restarting cures this fault, but I don't know why its started doing it.
Your help would be very appreciated.
We run an old CLC 3200 machine which is causing me grief.
The problem first appeared a number of months ago and I spent an age trying to fix it. At first I was getting a problem with toner being printed along the length of an A3 sheet. It was about 10mm wide.
When I removed the ITB unit there was a toner stripe running right around the belt. I cleaned the belt with "Isoclean" and it ran fine for a little while, then it returned again. Subsequent cleaning had the same effect. I had cleaned the "Cleaning Blade" and eventually a more thorough cleaning did the trick.
However, another problem developed. The colour registration was all over the place. Doing a full Autograd didn't make any difference, and I repeated this a couple of times before I noticed on the print-outs that the four colours started at different positions. The difference was about 5mm.
Checking on the forums the suggestions were to clean the DC-Con file, and possibly restore the settings manually. At this point I hesitated for fear of wrecking the whole system.
I contacted an engineer that I had used in the past and he came to check it out. I believe he cleared the DC-Con and when the machine was rebooted the DC-Con files were all fine. He then needed to do something about the paper sizes on the Stack Bypass.
Everything has been going well until last week when running 1000 SRA3 sheets, and the colour registration moved on the last 50 sheets. Subsequent attempts have given the same result. Doing a full Autograd has the colours miss-aligned again.
The engineer who helped in the past isn't able to at this point in time, so I have cleaned the DC-Con and again after rebooting the info is still there. However, paper sizes are not recognized when sheets are put into the stack-bypass.
Sorry for this 'Epistle' but I need to know what I need to do to set the paper sizes for the Stack-bypass. Also, while I cleaned the DC-con, should I have done anything else?
Something else has just happened today, when the machine was switched on it gave the error code E000020-0181 which I know if for the yellow drum, which isn't very old. Pulling the drum out slightly and putting it back before restarting cures this fault, but I don't know why its started doing it.
Your help would be very appreciated.
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