Introduction
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Do your printed papers have these or similar vertical black and yellow lines?
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Then this is the tutorial for you to make them disappear
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Open the printer front and take everything out
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Take out the toners
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Take out the drum together with the waste bin
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Your printer should now look like in the image attached
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Use a flashlight to see inside the printer
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On the glossy black plastic you will see vertical lines of color which are the cause of your printers problem
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Use a small white paper and try to stick it into the top - like shown
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Move it from left to right and drag it out again
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You will see that it is pretty dirty afterwards
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Do this multiple times and clean the black glossy plastic with a cotton cloth - be careful not to scratch it
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Close the printer again and print some pages
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After the 2nd or 3rd the black vertical lines should be gone completely
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Have fun - again!
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To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.
7 comments
Michael I have a thick horizontal line that repeats as a Ghost image. Will this help fix it? I have tried cleaning the paper track and the rollers etc, with no such luck.
same here, if i print a blank page it has various horizontal shadows and looks dirty
My printer was many years practically only B&W because of awful colors. This trick helped to restore colors. Thank you!