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Carly Birkett
Carly Birkett Posted on May 02, 2014
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My printer is printing black horizontal lines down the right side of the paper - what is wrong?

I am not sure if the drum needs replacing or if it is a fault, but every page has black horizontal lines all down the right-hand side, and the text it prints is very faint on the right side too. The rest of the page looks fine.

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Needs Drum If you pull the drum unit out you will see on the drum different shades of color lighter is wear the lines come from. Buy a rebuilt drum much cheaper and they work, may have to reset the drum count if the change drum lite on...

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Anonymous

  • Posted on Apr 18, 2008

SOURCE: Printing on half page only

you need to clean laser but first try to change drum and toner



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Anonymous

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  • Posted on Jun 09, 2008

SOURCE: grey stripe on printed page

Hi please follow these small steps:

For complete information with pictures click on this link.

http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/BSC/public/us/us/en/faq/faq/000000/000200/000012/faq000212_012.html?reg=us&c=us&lang=en&prod=hl1440_all&Cat=3

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Please Let me know if it worked for you or not

Anonymous

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  • Posted on Aug 27, 2008

SOURCE: mfc 7820n prints weird black line down side of page

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Anonymous

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  • Posted on Nov 02, 2008

SOURCE: Lines on Paper

Under the drum there is a thin ****-glass. Make sure there is nothing on the glass. Do not use compressed air to remove the debris from the glass. Use a dust cloth or such. Using air will blow the debris into the laser unit and it will have to be taken apart to be cleaned.

Anonymous

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  • Posted on Dec 17, 2008

SOURCE: Black line down the paper on copy mode. Ok in print mode.

There is most likely something on your scan glass that is blocking the scanner. Clean of both pieces of glass that are there when you flip open the ADF, or top cover. Try to copy again. If it is still there then there is either something on the scanner piece that moves back and forth to scan or one of your scan LEDs is burnt out and the scanner will have to be replaced.

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