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‎09-16-2022 09:25 AM

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Product: M452nw
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 (64-bit)

Long story... I have a laserjet pro m452nw that started printing ghost images from a past picture onto every sheet afterwards. I took apart the fuser and saw that the film roller had a burned through spot with ink in the foam that was causing the issue. I ordered an oem hp foam roller and heat film tube set. Installed with no issues... now it prints black and white flawlessly, but as soon as you print a color page it smears both sides of the print, if I print 50 copies it'll get better and better and better... then let it sit for 10 minutes and try again and it's worse than before. Any ideas? I'll try to attach a couple pictures.

 

Should also not the belt looks perfect and the belt sweeper is cleaning the belt as it should,  I believe this problem to be in the fuser

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‎09-16-2022 12:30 PM

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I just took it apart after printing 20 full color pages... I believe the heater may be bad... the center of the heater is so hot I can't touch it, the outsides where the ink smears it just warm to the touch... is that possible?

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‎09-29-2022 07:58 AM

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Still no solution to this, ended up replacing the foam roller, film sleeve and heater again, no change, smears the outside of color pages on both sides

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