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  • copierlady
    Trusted Tech

    250+ Posts
    • Apr 2008
    • 338

    Bizhub c350 ghosting

    Working on bizhub c350 it is ghosting on blacks prints and copies. No ghosting on yellow/green or blue, when you do a single color copy, unless it right after a black copy, then the black ghosting hangs on for a few copies befor it clears up. I changed the black drum out about 3 weeks ago. Used new oem. And that stopped the problem at the time but now it is back again. Gonna try another drum tomarrow just because i don't know what else to do. Any thoughts? Thanks
  • RRodgers
    Service Manager

    1,000+ Posts
    • Jun 2009
    • 1950

    #2
    Open the front door and give the little blue knob on the black IU a few pulls in and out. This is the corona cleaner. Next go into admin mode (I believe it's in there) and run the reset and stabilize a couple of times.
    After that try a gradation adjustment, and see if it works for ya.
    Color is not 4 times harder... it's 65,000 times harder. They call it "TECH MODE" for a reason. I have manual's and firmware for ya, course... you are going to have to earn it.

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    • copierlady
      Trusted Tech

      250+ Posts
      • Apr 2008
      • 338

      #3
      Ok thanks. I'll give it a try and let you know how it goes. Hope it works. I hate to waste another drum.

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      • copierlady
        Trusted Tech

        250+ Posts
        • Apr 2008
        • 338

        #4
        Ok, tryed all that good stuff. (tech rep mode by the way) no good. But i replaced the drum again and i have great copies again. What is up with this copier. I got rid of the problem befor with a new drum but, it did not last but a few thousand copies. The drum doesn't even have one bar on it. Maybe i am not discribing the problem properly. The image reapears (faded) about six inches from the original image, but only black copies. I'm really tired. Hope you get what i am trying to say.

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        • RRodgers
          Service Manager

          1,000+ Posts
          • Jun 2009
          • 1950

          #5
          Maybe the cleaning blade is not doing it's job properly.
          Color is not 4 times harder... it's 65,000 times harder. They call it "TECH MODE" for a reason. I have manual's and firmware for ya, course... you are going to have to earn it.

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          • copierlady
            Trusted Tech

            250+ Posts
            • Apr 2008
            • 338

            #6
            You talking about the drum cleaning blade? Cause i have tried several drums. First one was a rechip so it might have been bad. But the second one was oem new. Worked for a while then started the ghosting or double imaging down the page after a few thousand copies. I am hoping it was just a bad drum. Anybody ever get a bad drum direct from konica? I know the rechips don't always do a good job, but this was new oem.

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            • RRodgers
              Service Manager

              1,000+ Posts
              • Jun 2009
              • 1950

              #7
              Ya printing on just regular paper? And this only happens on black?
              Color is not 4 times harder... it's 65,000 times harder. They call it "TECH MODE" for a reason. I have manual's and firmware for ya, course... you are going to have to earn it.

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              • MagBus

                #8
                Could be a bad print head(K) sometimes you can swap them with another color and see if it transfers to that color. BTW i have received a bad K IU once for a C451 which has the same IU. But i don't mean to say that they're always bad or you have a bad one.

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                • mrwho
                  Major Asshole!

                  Site Contributor
                  2,500+ Posts
                  • Apr 2009
                  • 4303

                  #9
                  No one mentioned it, but sometimes ghosting is caused by dirty printheads. Forget the cleaning jig - remove the belt and the IUs and then clean the printheads with a soft cloth slightly moist. It usually does the trick.
                  ' "But the salesman said . . ." The salesman's an asshole!'
                  Mascan42

                  'You will always find some Eskimo ready to instruct the Congolese on how to cope with heat waves.'

                  Ibid

                  I'm just an ex-tech lurking around and spreading disinformation!

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                  • fixthecopier
                    ALIEN OVERLORD

                    2,500+ Posts
                    • Apr 2008
                    • 4714

                    #10
                    Usually when I have ghosting on one of these, I take the wand and put water or alcohol on the pad and scrub the L.E.D.real hard. Then change the pad and rub with a dry one. You really have to bare down and scrub hard.
                    The greatest enemy of knowledge isn't ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge. Stephen Hawking

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                    • Spidula
                      Konica Minolta Technician

                      50+ Posts
                      • Apr 2010
                      • 83

                      #11
                      Try a new transfer roller. Just to eliminate it.

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