Fix or repair color laser printer with fading, light print, or lines samsung clp 300 Part 1 of 2
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Fading, light spots, and lines are a problem that occurs eventually in many laser printers, and this is an attempt at fixing one.
This video describes the repair of a Samsung CLP 300 color laser printer.
Just want to say a big thanks for providing this video.I have a clp 300 which was printing
very poorly in black and was hardly readable until i tried cleaning the printer blade on the black roller which has restored it to perfect working order.
Many thanks
I used this Video to do exactly the same repair to my Samsung CLP315, It was the same repair, but because of the new design of the cartridge I was so much simpler. Thank you very much
Hello,
this is truely a fantastic video. My CLP 300 prints now like it is new, just by cleaning the metal edges. (step 1)
Thank you so much.
Here 2 additional tips - where I had difficulty :
1. I did not care enough on the alignment of rubber/foam edges (after 14minutes and 35 seconds in the video) for the yellow and I had yellow edges on the prints - I fixed that and everything was ok.
2. the plastic feet (after 4:20) are kind of difficult to snap off - it easier once you realize you have to push to the right to liberate the one on the left, and push to the left to liberate the one on the right.
Great video, this helped a lot.
I was about to buy a new printer but found this video, watched it, copied the advice with my Samsung CLP315 (very similar) and it worked a treat. My printouts are now fade free.
Really pleased, thanks for your help... especially just before Christmas!!
Dave G
I want to thank you for taking the time to make this video!
Amazing video. Great attention to detail. Amazing and useful... THNAKS!!!
Hi
Used to be in the remanufacturing sector.
The blade on the top applies a charge (thats why it is metal) which is opposite to the charge on the green drum (OPC) and once a thin layer has been applied, the toner is then attracted to the 'green' drum in a pattern layed down by the laser.
The 'blade' is usually referred to as a doctor blade and under the small roller will be another blade called a wiper blade to wipe off excess toner.
We used to clean all non drum parts with iso alcohol but the black roller was cleaned with a cotton pad and de-ionised water then left to dry (use a hairdryer on cool).
The common problem of lines is usually a hair caught in the doctor blade.
very repetitive grey or dull print areas usually means the roller needs to be replaced if you can find a supplier.
Often, as you say, find a cartridge you don't use or one which hasn't been used much and clean it up before swaping over.
Hope this helps
Thank u vaery much... Keep doing good work of posting such kindda video...
Thank you for you sharing of knowledge. I have some insight now in to what can be done to fix my printer.
Thanks for the tutorial, this helped me a lot!
Thank you so much for sharing your time and knowledge c:
"Black is our problem child" "Black doesn't show up so hot on video" haha x)) sorry... I know it's lame but it made me crack up.
Thumbs Up!!
I'm a pedant, I know, but it is a tongue blade, not a popsicle stick.
Good instruction video but at the crucial point you made a Bad move cleaning the metering blade with a Popsicle stick. Use a Clean rag with Turpentine to dissolve the melted bonded toner. You don't want to risk scratching the surface of the blade. The whole cause of this happening is the cheap so called compatible toners people buy online. Genuine Toner Is CPT Toner, potato shaped that roll like ball bearings. Cheap toner is MPT Toner random nonuniform shaped that clogs and melts to the metal blade. If you continue to use the toner that is loaded in the affected developer unit the problem will keep reoccuring in about 500 pages.
I am getting 4mm dots every 30.5mm on lexmark cs510de on colour only and they don't appear on when printing black only, I tried your way and it didn't helped any other place I need to look at?
i got a brand new brother printer a month ago but whenever i print out an image there are vertical light streaks, i tried cleaning the drums. what could be the issue for a new printer??
Thanks for your great video and everyone else who contributed more information. One of You Tubes better informative videos.
Could you please help me? I have old HP laser Jet 3500 and my cyan stooped working - completely!? It worked fine and that nothing. I change cyan toner (new OEM) and BLACK and worked!? Later I calibrated my printer... no cyan any more :(. Do you know what could be a problem?
quit tapping your pencil so much, it's pissing me off... otherwise, thanks!
youre an idiot, otherwise, thanks!!
These free self help videos are so greatly appreciated!
Great video and saved me several hundred dollars. I did the fix and found a black line along the right side of the pages after printing a few, turns out I had the foam finger snagged which lifted the plate so too much toner was getting out and accumulating. Once I cleaned out the accumulated toner and re-tightened the screws everything turned out perfect
I don't know why I am watching this. I have a HP that have problems with the yellow and red toner. To much red and to little yellow.
Anyone had problems assembled it back?
This is an EXCELLENT video! Only one comment i would like to share. If you refill your own cartidges they MAY not indicate they are empy when then are. One suggestion before doing this is just refill the cartidge and see how is does. I followed these steps and it works GREAT! Many thanks for your fabo video.
I had faded black - I just pulled the black toner feeder cover off there was no build-up on the wiper but i gave the toner pickup roller a rub with cotton cloth and turned it a bit each time to rub all of it - then put it back together, It gave a very notable improvement in to the darkness of the black print except near the very edge maybe some of ink in the toner tunnel was lumpy and the process removed the lumpy ink - whatever it helped. And maybe i missed bit cause left edge is still faded but many thanks this did help me allot.
After this many years, I was able to fix a printer that I bought used. Seller used color picture to advertise the printer :( Problem with back toner was exactly like the one you presented.
Great knowledge share. It worked 100%, my printer will be still alive for a while. Many Thanks.
I have a yellow streak appear usually on the first page of a print. Also had some shadowing. I think the shadowing is gone after doing fix #1. They yellow streak, I'm hoping, will be fixed as well. Either way, great video, and now I know a lot about the inside of my printer. I couldn't have done it without your help.
my colour images now look great but now i have black toner along both the left and right side of the paper as well as on the back. i am guessing it may be the Z plates either too loose or tight. also the seal that surrounds the y/m/c plates started to lift. good news i didn't break the seals, i did manage to break off a small piece of footing.
I followed the instructions on this video and part 2. First my printer printed out a couple of pages but then started to print only blank pages. Has this happened to anyone else? I don't know what went wrong :(
Excellent first fix completely solved my printing problems in less time than it takes to watch the video. Just with I'd watched the video before I bought a new toner cartridge. :-)
Thank you so much for the video, my printer had the same problem and I just clean the toner metering blade per your instruction and it fixed the problem.
You should call it Repair for Dummy's! LOL But it's GREAT!! Thumbs up!
great job on the video, it's helped me out a lot. Thanks and much love from Canada !!
Excellent stuff very useful. Thanks for taking the time and sharing your knowledge.
Very informative video, nice job... on your explanations and for different angles and zooming of the video, Successfully restored
Hi did you ever fixed a Kyocera Mita Color LaserJet printer. Could need some advice.
Thank
What a great video clip, well captured and explained.
One of the best clips on laser printer repair that I've seen.
Excellent work, thanks much.
Fantastic :) how about extra black on all print outs ? same problem as shown ?
this was perfect, thank you. just experiencing faded black print on my clp300 and some of the colour images are no longer clear looking.
Excellent video. Very professional, I wish all were like these. :-)
Thank your for your clear, informative post. I used your procedure (from part 1) to repair my Samsung CLP-315W. As you probably know, the 310, 315, etc. uses a different toner cartridge than the 300. But the toner transfer drum and metering blade are quite similar to the 300. In fact, the repair is much simplified on the 310, 315, etc. because the toner reservoir and transfer drum are combined into a single unit.
To perform your repair on the 315, simply open the front cover and pull out the offending toner cartridge. The metering blade is attached to the cartridge with only two screws, and is easily removed for cleaning as you described. The metering blade in my black toner cartridge had quite a bit of "crust" buildup, but cleaned up easily using a tongue depressor, as you suggested.
Your precautions regarding the foam seal are vital (as I discovered the hard way). The blade is held down by a spring on the left end, so reassembly requires sliding the blade (right to left) under the spring as a first step. Then the right end may be dropped into place. As you can imagine, this sequence virtually guarantees that the left end foam is correctly positioned. But, at the same time, it becomes very challenging to get the right end foam properly fit. Your suggestion of using an x-acto knife came to the rescue here, as well.
I had just recently depleted all of the original toner cartridges and purchased a toner kit ($28) and refilled all the cartridges. That task was also quite simple. All of this promises to greatly extend the life of my CLP-315W, (unless something goes wrong with other major components).
Very good video. Thanks for the info.
Hey bro, how do you repair the wiper blade on the imaging unit. I keep ghost images on my prints. When I open the printer to look at the imaging unit I still see residue all over the imaging drum? I took everything apart and wiped it all down with alcohol. I even took the drum off and wiped everything down. Still keep getting the ghost images. I think it's the drum wiper but I don't know how to fix it, do you?
Swop the wiper blade from a diff color drum cartridge and see if that helps. Oops, this question is 4 years old..lol
Povertylabs: I have an Hp Laserjet that starts printing a lot of fine white vertical lines across the photo image. Do you think the problem lies with the transfer kit or is it with the cartridge(s)? I did the calibration test but it still prints lots of fine white vertical lines still.
Absolutely beautiful video, excellent, only thing would be nice to have full screen, but still excellent
Thank you... very thorough and easy to follow. I think I now have the know how to tackle and clean up the "dirty" copies on my CLP 300!
Brilliant tutorial. Thank you very much.
Great instructions! So detailed and to the point that even I managed to save my good old printer! THANK YOU! :)
this printer the clp 300 has been giving me a few problems the fading black being one and a pickup roller that has failed causing doubles or just not working. managed to fix the roller by cleaning w water occasionally. Cost me more to take it in then its worth. I may try to fix myself...but I hope to hear from others that this cleaning repair might work. ...shame that a printer cost so little to buy then to replace the toner and repairs for it. Wonder if the p. jams might have caused problems?
i have a question: your diagram shows clearly why cleaning the developer blade helps, but why does it get clogged in the first place - and why just the black?? does using "compatible" rather than xerox toner make it worse? also, why does swapping the rollers help? is the black roller itself actually damaged in some way? wont i just end up with streaky blue? (admittedly a less bad problem). thanks again dude, you're a lifesaver.
Hello, i successfully clеaned my CLP -300 printer like you show on the video. I have just a little problem when the page come out there is small line spot in the left side of the page colored in yellow and red. What can be the problem? maybe from that phone fingers that you talking about to not be pinch? Thank you in advance!
Your explanation and video was excellent. Thank you for your time doing this and helping a lot of us out!
Thank you very much for the nuances in your explanations and for different angles and zooming of the video.
Are you able to do the same with a Xerox CM305df ?
Thanks for helping
If i want to refill my cartridges, can i just buy any cyan, yellow and magenta colors or do i have to be carefull about that. I am confused because i was told that not all the cyan, yellow and magenta colors are the same. So for instance those colors for an Epson printer are different from those for a Canon printer.
Is that true?
What did you use to clean the toner off of the roller? just a rag? or is there alcohol or something to wipe off the toner?
Perfect, professional. Thank you !!!
¿Cual sería la parte de la impresora que tiene que coger el papel?
Excellent! Thank you for sharing.
Thank you thank you thank you! Im so happy my printer works again :D I have a CLX-2160 but the toner module is pretty much the same
On a color laser printer I have a thick red line down the left edge of my printed page. The print otherwise is ok. Does anyone know what this would be?
Hey, really like ur videos! just got one of these printer... And having a problem to close the cover after I cleaned my toner transfer units. The two flaps on the sides do not wanna stay simultaneously... Do u have any idea, what it could be? Please replay! Thx!
And it is called a Developer unit. Not a drum unit.
anyone know where to get that test print image of the legos?
Just wanted to drop a note of thanks for this video. Bought similar printer at a local rummage sale. First couple pages of black seemed okay. I don't print a lot but when I came back at a later time noticed the lines and/or faded print. I knew it needed some kind of maintenance and found your video. Must say you made it easy to follow and it has fixed the problem for now.
I noticed when cleaning the top plate that the toner sitting in the reservoir seemed "gunk" Could it be bad?
Fantastic video. Followed your instructions and my printer was fixed! Just had a bit of difficulty putting the green drum back in and didn't tighten the left screw enough so the assembly wouldn't fit back into the printer at first but checked everything and realised the problem. Thanks again, saved me lots of money i'm sure!
dunvitor, your photosensitive (green) drum could be misaligned.
After watching your videos a couple of times, today i cleaned my printer today. I works fine again!! You saved me a lot of money. Thank you very much!! Greetzz from icey Amsterdam. You're the best!
This video you did just saved me having to replace my Samsung CLX 2160. The great thing was my printer seemed to be exactly the same as the CLP 300 you did the tutorial on. My black was fading but after cleaning the blade thing the black went back to being 'proper' black again. I then did all the colours and did before and after test pages and both yellow and magneta looked loads better so I am very happy! If there was a way to donate a small amout of money for your hard work I would!
So I have one of these CLP-300 printers and was able to successfully follow your helpful information
to clean and refurbish in order to get about 3 more years out of a seldom used unit. Yesterday I did the same, expecting to have similar success results, but ended up with thick dark line on L/H/S running the entire length
of the paper. All printing is clear and crisp. I’ve taken it apart 4 times now and no change in results. I thought I’ve been very careful about the foam “fingers” and tried tightening screws (5) and loosening them. Any thoughts or ideas...I thank you very much for the YT posting of this helpful vid. Hopefully you are still online. Thanx for any and all assists., cheers, Bill
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Just as followup, I did your part 2, swapping out black roller for blue roller...I’m getting pretty good at dissembling and re-assembling this unit, but the L/H/S blackish streak persists. If anyone can provide an avenue of assistance, it will be greatly appreciated. I’ve still got a couple of new toner kits to use before I’m ready to purchase another. Hahah, maybe I’m gonna be the ‘problem child’, cheers, Bill
If you manually roll the rubber wheel of the offending color, you can see what kind of layer the blade is leaving on the wheel. It might be a bit thick on that end?
I still use this old printer myself sometimes, and often the first page or two have some artifacts that go away after a while. -Also maybe check if you might have a chunk of toner hiding somewhere on that side of the mechanism.
Same issue with a CLP-350. Still trying to understand why. Did you find a way to fix it ?
Great video; very clear explanation. Thank you very much. I only did the first of the two repairs, and oh man...what a difference!
Thank you very much for this very good video! Got my printer working perfectly again.
I didn't find the spring you talk about at 4:50 though.
2 color lines on page. i changed drum.cleaning blade. but same faulty printing. please advice
Great tutorial! You helped save me almost $200. Also, I loathe to chuck a perfectly good, albeit dirty part. My imaging unit has lived to see another day. Thank you!
THANK YOU!!!!!!!! Just did this first video and my printer is running like new. BRILLIANT :)
Hi, what a great video! I tried to do it 2 months ago, but it didn't work,maybe I wasn´t careful with the blade cleaning.. Also, I've realized that my printer didn't has as much loose toner in the container as yours, even when my "cartridges" are full. Do you know if that could be the problem and/or how to fix it? Thank you so much
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I have a CLP-350N and the video was very, very helpful. Thanks so much for posting.
Thanks for sharing your expertise !!!
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Brilliant! Thank you so much for the detailed instructions and theory. It helped me fix my Samsung SCX-4200 mono laser printer. It had the gray printout for quite long time and I had no idea what went wrong.
Superb video. It works. Thanks very much.
thank you. you saved me having to buy a new printer.
Thank you for having the time to share with us. I had bought a new drum thinking that was the problem, only to find out after I replaced it that it made no difference, and I was beginning to think it's gonna cost me a fortune to fix it. I tried your method and made it like new. Thank you.
thanks a ton man, works like a charm!
I appreciate your time. thank you for this video.
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Thank you.
amazing vid, very clear and straightforward to follow. gave me the confidence to try it.
good video
too complicated. I need to print not take apart my printer.
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Very informative video, nice job!
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thats probably because you focus on the wrong things