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Where the drum is located inside a replaceable
toner cartridge, there is no need for special handling. However,
where the drum is a separate unit, the following applies. Or, if
for some reason, you need to disassemble (gasp!) a cartridge:
(From: David Kuhajda (dkuhajda@locl.net).)
Whatever you do, do NOT use alcohol on an organically based drum,
it will ruin it. The alcohol causes the material to crystalize.
I use to do copier service and this was stressed a lot by the manufacture
as they switched from the old selenium drums to the new opc drums.
Direct sunlight will immediately destroy the drum. A couple of minutes
under normal lighting is no problem, just place it in a dark area
and put a black cloth over the top of the drum while it is out.
If you are replacing the drum cleaning blade or cleaning the crud
off the blade, make sure you powder up the drum completely and the
blade before reapplying power. The toner actually is a slight lubricant
and the rubber cleaning blade directly on the drum will also ruin
it. Just print a few low text copies after reassembling to allow
the blade to reseat properly.
From: hapticz@email.msn.com.)
- Short periods (less than 5 min) under fluorescent lighting is safe.
- Direct sunlight kills them immediately.
- Just have a clean brown paper bag to shove it into while it sits
on the table outside the machine.
- Often more damage is done to them physically during insertion/removal.
just be careful.
- Xerox used to clean the 10" diameter drums with
90% isopropyl alcohol and some kind of "Kim Wipes" in our office,
that was years ago though.
For more information, check out this book on laser printer maintenance
and repair: "Easy Laser Printer Maintenance and Repair by Stephen
J. Bigelow". (From: Michael (ncacaver@aol.com).)
Your local library should have it or be able to get it. Stephen
J. Bigelow has several other books on printer repair, both laser
and non laser types. All are very good.
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