Replaced all 4 PCUs and cleaned Intermediate Transfer Belt not long ago. Thread about that here: http://www.copytechnet.com/forums/ri...r-message.html
It has now been a few thousand pages and following printing problem is occurring:
From SLEEP (cold) state, start printing a few hundred copies of a 1 page document. Starts out beautiful copies, then after 10-20 pages, it starts getting pages that are poorly fused (my interpretation). I.e. part of the image is not there, and stuff/image is smeared down the page. Blotchy image area even feels physically rough (I can tell a bad page by feel). One or two pages will be bad, then a few good, then a few bad. And so it goes.
Bad area is always at the top/leading edge of the page, typically from center going towards the left side of the page.
Please see attachment for samples that I scanned.
Background: Printer page counts are 63787 / 55031 / 8756 (what are these numbers?).
Printing in this case is simplex (one sided, not duplex).
Paper is 24 pound (heavy high quality paper) - size is 8. 1/2 x 11.
Page is mostly pictures and almost all printing is done with at minimum several small pictures on each page - and mostly duplex.
Not a typical all-black 5 % coverage text usage type of print job.
About 10% usage is high color coverage on card stock from the bypass tray (simplex).
I have set printer default for Tray 1 as Thick #2 (24-28 pound paper) and this does not seem to help.
Fuser life should be 100,000 pages and I think I have long way to go but is this a sign that the fuser is worn out anyway? Perhaps because of always using heavy paper and high color coverage? Or should I be looking elsewhere?
Thank you,
John
It has now been a few thousand pages and following printing problem is occurring:
From SLEEP (cold) state, start printing a few hundred copies of a 1 page document. Starts out beautiful copies, then after 10-20 pages, it starts getting pages that are poorly fused (my interpretation). I.e. part of the image is not there, and stuff/image is smeared down the page. Blotchy image area even feels physically rough (I can tell a bad page by feel). One or two pages will be bad, then a few good, then a few bad. And so it goes.
Bad area is always at the top/leading edge of the page, typically from center going towards the left side of the page.
Please see attachment for samples that I scanned.
Background: Printer page counts are 63787 / 55031 / 8756 (what are these numbers?).
Printing in this case is simplex (one sided, not duplex).
Paper is 24 pound (heavy high quality paper) - size is 8. 1/2 x 11.
Page is mostly pictures and almost all printing is done with at minimum several small pictures on each page - and mostly duplex.
Not a typical all-black 5 % coverage text usage type of print job.
About 10% usage is high color coverage on card stock from the bypass tray (simplex).
I have set printer default for Tray 1 as Thick #2 (24-28 pound paper) and this does not seem to help.
Fuser life should be 100,000 pages and I think I have long way to go but is this a sign that the fuser is worn out anyway? Perhaps because of always using heavy paper and high color coverage? Or should I be looking elsewhere?
Thank you,
John
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