Help with my laser printer!!! **UPDATE**

[UDT89]

Well my toner ran out last week, and it started to print the whole page dark but you could make out the text. Now i got toner replacements and its still doing this. Its printing dark lines in the background, it looks like a bad photocopy.


Any help ideas?

its a brother hl 1040

 

[Evadman]

Laser scanner is going bad. I am sure there is another name for it. But that happened with one of mine. It was 80% of the cost of a new one to fix.

 

[XMan]

The xerographic drum (probably green) is toast.

You might lucky with a can of air, blow all of the toner out of the image transfer area.

Originally posted by: Evadman
Laser scanner is going bad. I am sure there is another name for it. But that happened with one of mine. It was 80% of the cost of a new one to fix.

If the ROS were bad his defects would be different . . . series of black lines spaced between areas of normal print, or a totally black page with no print visible. Laser machines are "white write"; the laser draws the area without text onto the drum in narrow scan lines.

 

[Stark]

wrong forum but x-man is correct. those drums are regular consumables on brother printers/faxes.

 

[UDT89]

why do people have to make it an issue if its a wrong forum??? can someone explain that?


i post something in the correct forum it takes days to get a response, i post it in OT where everyone goes and i get the exact answer i needed.

some people either need a drink or to get laid, not waste their lives making sure people know they posted in the wrong forum

 

[XMan]

Originally posted by: UDT89
why do people have to make it an issue if its a wrong forum??? can someone explain that?


i post something in the correct forum it takes days to get a response, i post it in OT where everyone goes and i get the exact answer i needed.

some people either need a drink or to get laid, not waste their lives making sure people know they posted in the wrong forum

Hey, it's all good, man, you got your question answered, didn't ya?

 

[Evadman]

Originally posted by: X-Man
The xerographic drum (probably green) is toast.

You might lucky with a can of air, blow all of the toner out of the image transfer area.

Originally posted by: Evadman
Laser scanner is going bad. I am sure there is another name for it. But that happened with one of mine. It was 80% of the cost of a new one to fix.

If the ROS were bad his defects would be different . . . series of black lines spaced between areas of normal print, or a totally black page with no print visible. Laser machines are "white write"; the laser draws the area without text onto the drum in narrow scan lines.

Very possable. I have never been a lazer man, I just talked with the Tech. He seemed to know what he was doing, so I took his word for it It was my work's printer anyway. He said it was that, I told my boss, along with the repair cost, we get new printer. Oh well.

 

[UDT89]

Originally posted by: X-Man

Originally posted by: UDT89
why do people have to make it an issue if its a wrong forum??? can someone explain that?


i post something in the correct forum it takes days to get a response, i post it in OT where everyone goes and i get the exact answer i needed.

some people either need a drink or to get laid, not waste their lives making sure people know they posted in the wrong forum

Hey, it's all good, man, you got your question answered, didn't ya?

Of course i did. But would you have seen it in the technical forum? do you visit that forum?

 

[XMan]

Originally posted by: UDT89

Originally posted by: X-Man

Originally posted by: UDT89
why do people have to make it an issue if its a wrong forum??? can someone explain that?


i post something in the correct forum it takes days to get a response, i post it in OT where everyone goes and i get the exact answer i needed.

some people either need a drink or to get laid, not waste their lives making sure people know they posted in the wrong forum

Hey, it's all good, man, you got your question answered, didn't ya?

Of course i did. But would you have seen it in the technical forum? do you visit that forum?

Sometimes. Unfortunately I don't think that this would have qualified as a highly technical question to some of the snobs in there. I'd like to see some of THEM describe the xerographic process . . . but anyhoo.

 

[RossMAN]

IT IS the wrong forum but personally I could care less.

Do you own the HL-1040 or 1440?

 

[inataysia]

it's "laser", not laser

 

[UDT89]

its the HL 1040

 

[UDT89]

bump b/c i cant my printer to print clear

 

[Cyberian]

Originally posted by: UDT89
bump b/c i cant my printer to print clear

And you already replaced the PC drum?

 

[freebee]

Wheres viper gts...don't he fix these things?

 

[UDT89]

heres the update.........

I cleaned everything. It didnt work.


So i plan to buy a new drum for $140. Figure its cheaper than buying a new printer, and the last drum was good for 6 years so hopefully it lasts that long again.

I want to upgrade the memory in the printer, it has 2mb right now. Where do i find and what kind of memory do i buy for this printer? Know any sites that explain installing it on this model? I've been searching for a while, and cant find much.

Any and all help is appreciated.

 

[zsouthboy]

Good luck finding memory. My Panasonic KX-P4410(I got it for $5 at a yard sale, bought a $10 toner cartridge off ebay, and i'm rockin ) has only 512K! i have looked everywhere and anywhere to find an upgrade for it, i know they exist... somewhere.

 

[Vincent]

Originally posted by: UDT89


I want to upgrade the memory in the printer, it has 2mb right now. Where do i find and what kind of memory do i buy for this printer? Know any sites that explain installing it on this model? I've been searching for a while, and cant find much.

Any and all help is appreciated.

The user's manual for your printer says that you can't add more memory to it.

http://www.brother.com/usa/printer/manual/index.html#HL-1040

 

[UDT89]

thanks for the info vincent..........but you ruined my night. Now i dont think i wanna buy a new drum. But i have 2 brand new toners for this damn thing