clean up after toner leaking

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LeonardP

I suspect whether it is possible to completely clean up my laserjet 4
plus
printer after the toner leaking. This makes all printouts with the
gray/black areas, which is caused by the leftover toner INSIDE the
printer.
Even if I replaced the toner with a new one, the problem was still
there.

Thanks

Leonard
 
LeonardP said:
I suspect whether it is possible to completely clean up my laserjet 4
plus
printer after the toner leaking. This makes all printouts with the
gray/black areas, which is caused by the leftover toner INSIDE the
printer.
Even if I replaced the toner with a new one, the problem was still
there.

Thanks

Leonard
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Leonard
Power off. Remove the toner cartridge.
Use a dry lint free cloth and carefully clean out the toner from underneath and
around the toner cartridge area. Keep your fingers away from the long dark
roller (Transfer charge roller).
Just in front of the long dark roller there is a steel bar that runs left to
right and is held in with two screws, remove this bar and clean underneath it,
it can only be put back one way.
You can try to use a vaccum cleaner but unless it has extremely fine filters it
will probably exhaust the toner all over the room!!!!
This model has a tendency to dump toner.
Afetr cleaning you will need to print 10 or more pages to ket rid of the
remaining toner (Using continuous test print is an easy way to do this).
Tony
 
I'm using the original HP toner. Can I disassemble the printer to clean
up the path of printing?

Leonard
 
LeonardP said:
I suspect whether it is possible to completely clean up my laserjet 4
plus
printer after the toner leaking. This makes all printouts with the
gray/black areas, which is caused by the leftover toner INSIDE the
printer.
Even if I replaced the toner with a new one, the problem was still
there.

Thanks

Leonard
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You won't need to disassemble the printer other than the bar I mentioned in my
first post, it's quite easy. When you have the toner cartridge out you will be
able to see just about all of the printer that collects toner
Whether the toner was OEM or not is irrelevant, the design of the cartridges
used in HP LJ4/4+/5 is not the best that HP have ever made (although the
printers themselves are real workhorses) and sometimes they leak.
Tony
 
measekite said:
i TAKE IT IS WAS NOT OEM
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Biggest leakers I ever had were a batch of three HP carts.

HP engineer was very impressed. By contrast, carts that I've refilled
have not been a problem.


J/.
 
Tony <?@?.?.invalid> said:
You can try to use a vaccum cleaner but unless it has extremely fine
filters it
will probably exhaust the toner all over the room!!!!
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Are cyclone cleaners any better in that respect ?


Cheers, J/.
 
John Beardmore said:
Are cyclone cleaners any better in that respect ?


Cheers, J/.
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John
Sorry no idea, never used one. We use purpose designed cleaners; you know,
expensive and really noisy <g>.
Cleaners designed for anti-allergenic purposes may well be OK.
Tony
 
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