Fixing the Printer¶
I finally reached the point where I needed to fix my Laser Printer. My Kyocera FS-1030DN has been serving me well for years and whilst the print quality is as good as they day I bought it I have had a problem with the page alignment. I have been loosing the top and bottom of pages which has been irritating.
I found a Techspot forum post detailing a solution.
Adrian123 Just fixed mine tonight with the help of Google Translate and a german printer forum…
The cause is small piece of foam rubber tape on the registration clutch solenoid, which gets slightly sticky with age and affects the timing of the paper mechanism.
If you’re reasonably comfortable dismantling stuff (and reassembling successfully!) it’s not hard to fix. It helps to get the service manual, which has nice diagrams of how the parts can be removed - Google “fs-1020d service manual”.
There’s a small piece of 0.5mm foam tape that’s supposed to stop the solenoid from clicking too loudly when the magnet pulls the lever in, and it’s probably very gooey. I scraped off the goo and replaced it with some foam tape I cut down thin with a razor blade. You could probably just omit it altogether or cover the goo with some adhesive tape.
Reverse to reassemble - good luck!
Well I tried out the method described and it worked a treat. I did indeed have sticky residue on the solenoids which I cleaned off. I reassembled the unit and ran a few print tests.The following pictures show the results, before print on the left, after print on the right.