TimHD
Well-known member
Hi
I recently acquired a Personal Laserwriter 320 and have done a basic (not complete) pull apart and clean up of the printer (as it was printing test pages with excess toner). My first test (before disassembling) got jammed and looking inside, the old toner cartridge was leaking toner everywhere which likely contributed to the test page jamming in the fuser assembly.
After re-assembling (with new toner cartridge) and printing the first Test Page, it was still largely just a lot of black toner (normal for first use of a new cartridge?), though within a few prints things calmed down and the text and images became visible (nb: earlier prints saw some images repeating along the page??). Nevertheless, even after things settled down, the test page still had excess toner - mostly at the start/top of the page, getting lighter as it progresses, but the next page once more starts quite dark, so I don't think its a case of printing more pages to get it clean. (see image below).
If I recall correctly how Laserprinters worked, it seems that the black toner is getting to the page but the process which forces the toner to bond with the page where it needs to, seems to be broken with all that toner sticking to everything rather than exiting the fuser area!
What's next - replacing the fuser assembly (922-0026) or possibly the fuser's fixing film assembly (922-0451) or is the toner not escaping as it should, so possibly, it's the Laser/ScannerAssembly (661-0027) at fault? (See last page of the manual for the part nos - http://tim.id.au/laptops/apple/misc/plw_300.320_lw_4.600_ps.pdf)
Some of these parts can be sourced, but prefer I went after the most logical one first, given I want to limit the cost of this refurb. Any suggestions welcome.
I recently acquired a Personal Laserwriter 320 and have done a basic (not complete) pull apart and clean up of the printer (as it was printing test pages with excess toner). My first test (before disassembling) got jammed and looking inside, the old toner cartridge was leaking toner everywhere which likely contributed to the test page jamming in the fuser assembly.
After re-assembling (with new toner cartridge) and printing the first Test Page, it was still largely just a lot of black toner (normal for first use of a new cartridge?), though within a few prints things calmed down and the text and images became visible (nb: earlier prints saw some images repeating along the page??). Nevertheless, even after things settled down, the test page still had excess toner - mostly at the start/top of the page, getting lighter as it progresses, but the next page once more starts quite dark, so I don't think its a case of printing more pages to get it clean. (see image below).
If I recall correctly how Laserprinters worked, it seems that the black toner is getting to the page but the process which forces the toner to bond with the page where it needs to, seems to be broken with all that toner sticking to everything rather than exiting the fuser area!
What's next - replacing the fuser assembly (922-0026) or possibly the fuser's fixing film assembly (922-0451) or is the toner not escaping as it should, so possibly, it's the Laser/ScannerAssembly (661-0027) at fault? (See last page of the manual for the part nos - http://tim.id.au/laptops/apple/misc/plw_300.320_lw_4.600_ps.pdf)
Some of these parts can be sourced, but prefer I went after the most logical one first, given I want to limit the cost of this refurb. Any suggestions welcome.
