subject: How to Maintain Your Printer [print this page] How to Maintain Your Printer How to Maintain Your Printer
In order to keep your printer work properly, you have to make a regular maintenance. In general, at the prearranged page count, your LCD display will show "Perform Printer Maintenance". It indicates that you have already reached the page count of regular maintenance. In addition, it also indicates that the maintenance kit is needed. A regular maintenance will make it deliver the greatest performance.
Maintenance kit of the printer typically contains a transfer roller, paper feed/separation rollers, paper pickup rollers, and also fuser assembly. All those parts are essential for your printer. Thereby, you will need them for performing the maintenance.
What is transfer roller? It is a sponge in black/gray color like the roller which manages the width of the paper path. It is located right underneath the toner cartridge. While you are printing, this roller will be electrically charged. When the paper slides between the roller and the drum of the toner cartridge, the drum will transfer the toner to the paper. It depends on the mechanical wear and also degradation. This roller can accumulate dust and it will also be contaminated with the oil if you touch it.
In addition, paper pickup or feed roller has the major function for picking up or feeding the paper and it is subject to the oxidation and mechanical wear. This is one for the most crucial parts for your printer so that it will be more beneficial for you to use the original equipment. It is under the consideration that the manufacturer knows the best material to use. Therefore, you have to get the maintenance kit with the original parts.
Then, what is fuser assembly? The fuser is utilizing the heat and pressure for fusing or melting the toner into the media or the paper. Since it uses pressure and heat, this assembly is exposed to the mechanical wear. Meanwhile, the heating element is exposed to the failure of the electricity. The plastic gears of your printer are able to degrade in the end and endless contact to the high temperature so that it can fail eventually.
However, the maintenance kit installation involves the replacement of the parts which are mentioned above. Also, you will need to clean up the toner and the paper dust. Another thing you need to do for the maintenance is the inspection of the most worn items. In addition, the maintenance kits are usually user replaceable which allows you to replace it by yourself.
