C284e Print quality issue. Advise please.

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  • chrisonline209
    Technician
    • Sep 2023
    • 14

    #1

    [Misc] C284e Print quality issue. Advise please.

    Hello everyone. I own a postal store, and i have a C284e that I try to maintain myself. I ran into a print quality issue with a pdf file sent to me from a client. When trying to print from my computer my printer would not get the colors right at all. grays came out kind of waist toner brown.. Teal colors were coming out blue, overall terrible quality. I swapped out everything, developing units, toners, drums, and imaging belt.

    Then I drove over to my clients business and he printed me one and I discovered that even after swapping all of those units my colors were just way off. I came back to my store and ran the good prints he gave me through the document feeder and my printer printed those beautifully. No problem if I ran it through the doc feeder.

    So, in a nutshell If I print from my computer, my phone, or even a usb in the machine I get terrible prints. but if I run it as a copy job it works fine. Can you please give me some ideas on what I can try to fix this machine?

    Note: toner saver is not on.


    Thank you in advance for your advise.

    Chris
  • eddie110171
    Service Manager

    100+ Posts
    • May 2012
    • 133

    #2
    Re: C284e Print quality issue. Advise please.

    Hello C284e is a Konica Minolta model if I am not mistaken. You posted in a Kyocera/Copystar section.

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    • chrisonline209
      Technician
      • Sep 2023
      • 14

      #3
      Re: C284e Print quality issue. Advise please.

      Originally posted by eddie110171
      Hello C284e is a Konica Minolta model if I am not mistaken. You posted in a Kyocera/Copystar section.
      Yes, I mistakenly posted on wrong machine page. Sorry about that.

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      • Tech09
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        100+ Posts
        • Apr 2020
        • 139

        #4
        Re: C284e Print quality issue. Advise please.

        Have you tried having your customer put the file on a thumb drive and printing directly from that?

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        • Samanator
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          • Sep 2017
          • 571

          #5
          Re: C284e Print quality issue. Advise please.

          BTW, if it is a Kyocera machine, whats the model number?

          It would help a bit.

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          • copyman
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            • Sep 2005
            • 4524

            #6
            Re: C284e Print quality issue. Advise please.

            Are you using genuine toners? Did you clean print heads with wand clipped on inside of front door and then do the gradation adjustment? Konica Minolta recommends doing the gradation adjustment before every "critical" print job.

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