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    Which fuser roller is heated ?

    Everything I’ve read says the heated fuser roller has a hard surface & the pressure roller is rubber. The lower roller on my Brother MFC -L2700DW is sort of brown colored & has a glossy look so I presumed it was the heated roller. The upper roller looks like gray rubber so I figured it was the...
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    Can I use preprinted paper in a laser printer ?

    I’d like to use some stationary paper with a preprinted colored border in a laser printer but am not sure if it’s safe to use due to the heated drum. IOW is the colored ink heat resistant or will it come off on a drum? The manual for my Brother all-in-one printer says “Preprinted paper must use...
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    Canon iP4700 cleaning cycle

    My Canon iP4700 was already on because I printed some black text about 6 hours prior. I went to print another page & the printer started doing it nozzle cleaning ritual. I grabbed my watch & timed it at almost exactly 2 minutes of making noise & probably wasting ink. Then a message said to...
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    iP4700 pigment vs black dye ink

    I have a Canon iP4700 & sometimes print & send out club membership forms. They are folded into thirds to fit a #10 envelope. When I get these back there usually is some ink transfer from where the bottom third was folded onto the middle third. It looks as if they were folded when the ink was...
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    Taking apart a print head?

    A few years ago I had a Canon iP3000 which started printing a rusty orange color instead of yellow. However it would print yellow after a nozzle clean cycle or printing a lot of yellow. As if running some yellow ink through the printhead flushed out possible contamination from the magenta...
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