How to calibrate Dell 3100cn printer - HP LaserJet CP1515n Printer

Looking for Dell 3100CN Service Manual

009-340 Error on the Dell Color Laser Printer 3000cn/3010cn/3100cn ...imaging drum cartridge. Turn the printer off using the power switch on the left side. Wait 10 seconds, turn the printer back on, and check if the error message...sensor solenoid nip. Turn the printer off using the power switch on the left... (English) 016-720 PCL Error on the Dell Color Laser Printer 3000cn/3010cn/3100cn ... Press Select ( ) to clear the error on the printer. Reset the printer NVRAM: Press Menu. Press the...and then press Select ( ). When Restart Printer appears, turn the printer off and then back on... (English)
KB Article How Do I Configure and Troubleshoot My Dell Color Laser Network Printer? - KB Article - 296059 ...Troubleshooting Guide for My Dell 3000cn-series / 3100cn Laser Printer ...available online for your Dell 3000cn/3100cn laser printer. The troubleshooting...printing, refer to the Dell Laser Printer 3000cn/3100cn Troubleshooting Guide... (English)

Hello,

This link will take you to a site where you can download the manual for your machine. You will the link on the right side of the page.

http://safemanuals.com/user-guide-instructions-owner-manual/DELL/3100CN-_E

Hope this helps.

This is commonly caused by faulty toner cartidges or OPC drums.

If there is a fualty color cartridge the device will try to recalibrate over and over....

Isolate the faulty toner cartridge and replace it.
I have seen this as a common problem with some poor quality refilled cartridges

The 3100cn will "calibrate" about every 10 pages during normal use. Is yours "calibrating" more often than that?

Memory Upgrade for Dell Color Laser Printer 3100cn Printers, the Dell Color Laser Printer 3100cn Printers takes the PC133 SDRAM SODIMMs Memory Type, and comes installed with 64 MB (non-removable) of Memory. You can upgrade your Dell Color Laser Printer 3100cn Printers to up to a maximum of 576 MB Memory, the system has 1 socket to install Memory, already with 64 MB (non-removable) standard Memory installed.

http://www.memorystock.com/memory/DellColorLaserPrinter3100cn.html

You should be able to get crucial or the likes to send you the correct memory - as for where it goes that will be in the manual

All color printers have a calibration mode.Essentially it makes sure that everything starts and stops at the same time.It should be accessible on the contol panel

There is a chip in each toner cartridge which tells the main machine something about how full it is. It may be that it tells it how full it is, or it may be that it tells it how many pages it has done. It sounds as if the new black cartridge has a duff chip, and is telling the main machine that it is empty. To test this, you can overide the message. 1. press on the menu button;
2. select configure;
3. select maintenance;
4. select non-dell toner;
5. set the value to on.
If that does't work, get back to me.
Tony Ludlow

replace with correct chip if this is not OEM