Hello to all,
I recently got a used Kyocera Taskalfa 4551ci for small office/home office use.
It has a page count of 170k and is still at firmare version from 2013.
Maybe a bit oversized, you will say, but I got it rather cheap and before that
we had a Lexmark x850e, but sadly its main board died. So we got used to
having 4 paper trays.
My naive thinking was: A machine that is built to do tens of thousands of pages
a month should last very long when printing only a few hundreds a month.
Well, time will tell if this is going to work out...
I already read in this forum that for this machines it is maybe not so good if
they idle most of the time.
I am not a copier technician, but I some IT background - and the service manual ;-).
But maybe you are kind enough to give me some hints.
The major problem at the moment is a light ghost printing. This occurs also
when printing b/w only. I have not tested if it occurs with only one color.
The ghost image appears on the back of the paper sheet. When printing a bunch
of sheets, the first couple is the worst, then it is getting better, but
during the print job can become worse again. Sometimes, when I print out
only one page, there is no sign of ghost printing, however.
I uploaded to images, on the original one you can see that the ghost image is
very light. The second image was photoshopped so you can better see the ghosting.
The arrow points into the exit direction (as I said, ghosting appears on back side).
It looks to me that the two rectangles top and bottom are caused by some rollers,
dont't you think? In any case they are not part of the printed content.
The lines however are ghost images of content from the printed pages
before. So, maybe two different problems on one page? The roller marks also
occur less often than the ghost lines.
Do you have any hints? Can I clean something apart from what is shown in
the user guide?
Should I do a drum or developer refresh? What happens exactly at a refresh?
I imagine that a developer refresh will waste some toner, is that right?
Would it help to alter some setting to lower the amount of toner used?
Hopefully no part is worn down, because getting a new part would be as
expensive as the whole copier was...I read the parts should yield 300k.
Oops, lots of text I wrote...Thanks in advance for your opinions.
Kind regards
Dirk
I recently got a used Kyocera Taskalfa 4551ci for small office/home office use.
It has a page count of 170k and is still at firmare version from 2013.
Maybe a bit oversized, you will say, but I got it rather cheap and before that
we had a Lexmark x850e, but sadly its main board died. So we got used to
having 4 paper trays.
My naive thinking was: A machine that is built to do tens of thousands of pages
a month should last very long when printing only a few hundreds a month.
Well, time will tell if this is going to work out...
I already read in this forum that for this machines it is maybe not so good if
they idle most of the time.
I am not a copier technician, but I some IT background - and the service manual ;-).
But maybe you are kind enough to give me some hints.
The major problem at the moment is a light ghost printing. This occurs also
when printing b/w only. I have not tested if it occurs with only one color.
The ghost image appears on the back of the paper sheet. When printing a bunch
of sheets, the first couple is the worst, then it is getting better, but
during the print job can become worse again. Sometimes, when I print out
only one page, there is no sign of ghost printing, however.
I uploaded to images, on the original one you can see that the ghost image is
very light. The second image was photoshopped so you can better see the ghosting.
The arrow points into the exit direction (as I said, ghosting appears on back side).
It looks to me that the two rectangles top and bottom are caused by some rollers,
dont't you think? In any case they are not part of the printed content.
The lines however are ghost images of content from the printed pages
before. So, maybe two different problems on one page? The roller marks also
occur less often than the ghost lines.
Do you have any hints? Can I clean something apart from what is shown in
the user guide?
Should I do a drum or developer refresh? What happens exactly at a refresh?
I imagine that a developer refresh will waste some toner, is that right?
Would it help to alter some setting to lower the amount of toner used?
Hopefully no part is worn down, because getting a new part would be as
expensive as the whole copier was...I read the parts should yield 300k.
Oops, lots of text I wrote...Thanks in advance for your opinions.
Kind regards
Dirk
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