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Exam 220-1101 topic 1 question 155 discussion.

A user that works in sales is reporting that the output on each page printed from a laser printer has duplicate images. Which of the following should be performed FIRST to eliminate the ghost images?

• A. Change the paper weight setting.
• B. Replace the printer's fuser.
• C. Upgrade the printer firmware.
• D. Clean the toner drums and rollers.

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Laser printer gurus, what is causing this "ghosting" on my prints?

• Thread starter LordAthens
• Start date Oct 28, 2015

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• Oct 28, 2015
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It could be the electrostatics are on their way out with the EP drum, or that the transfer roller is at the end of its life. It could even be a fuser problem. Fixing it is probably not going to happen, but you can try. I'd first try to run blank or nearly blank prints through it. Print a few pixels a dozen times. If that didn't help, I'd clean everything out. I believe on those units, it's the back panel you pull off to get at the imaging components (I have a CLP-325W, yours should be similar). Be very careful about not touching toner-covered rollers or the imaging portions and use a dry, lint-free cloth. While you're doing this, measure the diameter of all rollers you see, as all manner of faults could cause ghosting. Once you know the circumference of all the rollers (after measuring their diameter, or just circumference directly) match it up with how far between ghost images on your prints. It is nothing to do with toner quality or the cartridges.  

As much as I despise HP's home printers, there business class laser printers are nice. One reason is because when this starts happening (and it will), you can get a maintenance kit. A new fuser, transfer roller, and pick up rollers for the paper trays and the printer is good as new. Never had to get parts for a Brother. Is it even possible? I know that when the Brother AIO my parents had developed an issue, they called Brother and Brother just shipped my parents a new AIO.  

Transfer roller or drum in my experience. Not sure if that unit has an integrated toner/drum cartridge or if it's just toner? I have the same issue with my old Samsung ML-2851ND... the currently installed high-capacity toner/drum cartridge is barely 50% used, new high-capacity toner/drum (or two regular ones) is $60. Ran a bunch of blank pages through it, even picked up some "cleaning sheets" from OfficeMax-- they helped but pages still come out dirty.. :/ I ended up just replacing the whole unit with a Brother HL-L2340dw for something like $70 on sale. $10 more for a brand-new printer.  

• Oct 29, 2015

It's the drum/OPC belt (whichever the printer has). If it was the fuser, the ghosting would be every 1" or so, as the fuser rollers are smaller diameter. If the drum is part of the cartridge, then just replace that. If it has an OPC belt, then you can try cleaning the little fuzzy roller with some platenclene. That should revive the rubber in the roller, which may have dried up in disuse. Source: HP laser printer engineer for 15 years  

Sterling_Aug

• Nov 4, 2015

Measure the distance from the first line of ghost text to the same line of real text then divide by 3.1 It looks like that answer will be around 1.5" which should be the diameter of one of the rollers in the fuser.  

• Nov 5, 2015

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PsychoStreak

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• Nov 11, 2015

That printer doesn't use a combination drum/toner, but it does look like it's a drum problem, despite the ghosting on the bottom of the page. If it was the fuser the toner wouldn't be bonding properly and would easily smudge if you rubbed the page. Are you using 3rd party toner? That's always my first suspect for issues like this. If you're using Samsung toner, then the drum is dirty, which seems to be a common issue for the model. Indications are they're not that easy to clean, so a replacement might be less hassle.  

• Nov 12, 2015

It's the drum, as everyone has said. The drum is in the removable assembly on the rear of the unit. Disassembling this on the CLP325W (almost identical to yours) is not easy, but not hard either. It'll be a bit dirty. Just give it a good blowing (compressed air ++), make sure there's no pockets of toner in the corners of the assembly, and put it back together. If the ghosting continues (it probably won't, given that yours is barely worn at all), you'll need a new drum assembly. They're not that expensive.  

• Nov 15, 2015

I have mildly used Brother that does that with a generic refilled toner cartridge. If I print everything in duplex mode, it doesn't ghost.