Technical Bulletin
No. RTB-012
SUBJECT: Off-set Image Problem
DATE: Dec. 31, ’93
PAGE: 1 of 2
PREPARED BY: S. Orita
CHECKED BY:
FROM: 2nd Technical Support Section
CLASSIFICATION:
Action Required
Troubleshooting
Retrofit Information
Revision of service manual
Information only
Other
MODEL: E7 series
(A076/A077)
(Phenomenon)
Toner sticks to the hot roller and then is transferred to the copy paper from the hot roller
forming an off-set image.
(Cause)
This problem may or may not occur depending on the type of copy paper used. If the dust
from the copy paper contains a large amount of calcium carbonate, it tends to adhere to
the graphite in the teflon layer of the hot roller. If that happens toner sticks and gradually
accumulates at the same place on the hot roller. The greater the amount of the calcium
carbonate containing the copy paper, the more easily the toner sticks to the hot roller.
(Solution)
It is difficult to control the type of paper used and more kinds of paper including recycled
paper, which contains more additives, will be used in the future. Therefore, we have
decided to remove the graphite from the hot roller in order to expand the tolerance to
paper types and reduce the toner sticking problem.
The cut-in serial number of this change is as follows:
Machine Code
Cut-in Serial
Number
Machine Code
Cut-in Serial
Number
A076-10
2913110001
A077-10
2933100001
A076-15
3030110001
A077-15
5131000001
A076-16
2913100001
A077-16
2933100021
A076-17
A2943100001
A077-17
A2953100151
A076-19
A2944010426
A077-19
A295403XXXX
A076-22
2903100001
A077-22
2923120001
A076-25
2903100424
A077-25
2923100001
A076-26
3B71030001
A077-26
3B81030001
A076-27
A2943100348
A077-27
A2953110001
A076-28
A2943121414
A077-28
A295403XXXX
A076-29
A2944010625
A077-29
A2953100021
Reissued on March 31 ’94