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03-23-2017 08:36 AM
My HP Photosmart 7510 recently started producing vertical black lines on printed and scanned documents sent through the document feeder. Is there a fix for this?
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03-23-2017 10:31 AM
The issue you are seeing is caused by a spec on the thin piece of glass to the left of the main scanner bed. Clean this area thoroughly and it will resolve the issue. It may help to shine a bright flashlight from the front of the printer nearly parallel to the glass to highlight the spec.
The following may also help find the spec: get a peice of blank letter size white paper. Write "top" and "bottom" on the top and bottom end of the paper, then feed the top end into the ADF and make a copy. When the copy comes out of the printer take the copy and align the end that says "bottom" face up on the main scanner bed. Move it to the left against the thin glass. The spot the line points to will indicate where the cleaning needs to occur.
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03-23-2017 10:31 AM
The issue you are seeing is caused by a spec on the thin piece of glass to the left of the main scanner bed. Clean this area thoroughly and it will resolve the issue. It may help to shine a bright flashlight from the front of the printer nearly parallel to the glass to highlight the spec.
The following may also help find the spec: get a peice of blank letter size white paper. Write "top" and "bottom" on the top and bottom end of the paper, then feed the top end into the ADF and make a copy. When the copy comes out of the printer take the copy and align the end that says "bottom" face up on the main scanner bed. Move it to the left against the thin glass. The spot the line points to will indicate where the cleaning needs to occur.
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03-23-2017 10:47 AM
I am glad I could help. I have seen this personally a couple times over the years. I am always surprised what a small spec of paper dust or whatever can do to a copy if it happens to be in the wrong place.
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05-11-2017 11:38 AM
@Pat-Dacono wrote:I could SEE the speck that was causing the problem. Cleaned glass with alcohol swab. PROBLEM GONE! Thanks for having this on the forum!!!!!
Glad I could help. In some cases the spec is not noticable, I have seen cases where folks tried cleaning several times before they found the spec.
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