My friend is willing to give me his B&W laser printer: HP LaserJet 2100TN It still works but he says it does not print as dark as it used to. Here is what he says. Do you think, based on this, that the fuser is bad? Here is what my friend wrote me just now: Hi Misha, Do you want my HP LaserJet 2100TN? It works ok but prints light. I?m guessing the fuser would need to be replaced if you want it to print dark although a new toner cartridge might also work. The printer says it has printed 37k pages and the fuser has a life expectancy of 150k pages so there is definitely life left in it. I was considering replacing the fuser myself ? you can buy fusers for about $30 and they are very easy to replace on this model. But it just doesn?t make sense for me to invest in this printer any longer It has had the occasional paper jam but otherwise it has been great. It has two trays that hold about 500 pages each, 24MB of memory, and a Ethernet port. I still have some toner cartridges left but I don?t know how much toner is in them.

Fusers almost never cause light printing and on the very rare occasions that they do they cause ghosting down the page. Far more likely that it needs a new cartridge, bear in mind that cartridges that have been in storage for a very long time can print light. If the light printing is not across the entire page, cleaning the scanner glass may improve matters. Failing that you may have a failing transfer roller (or it may not be making good contact in its housing) but this is not common. A new cartridge nearly always fixes light printing. Tony

HP LaserJet 2100TN: What is a fuser and would it be possible to fix?

Sep 07, 2013 25 Replies

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Misha 12 years ago

Thanks. It was a lot of work to make them, but, I figured if people helped me, I should help them by giving the answer which I sought and found, with their help.

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Yianni 12 years ago

I also suggest to try this first.

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Fred McKenzie 12 years ago

Eddie-

I googled and found a user's manual at . I think you can get that at HP's website as well.

I found a service manual at .

Fred

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Eddie Powalski 12 years ago

Kewl! Thanks. My 3200m has two problems that I need to fix.

One is that it grabs too many sheets of paper in the fax feeder, making multi-page faxes or copying impossible without hand intervention.

The other is that it streaks the paper with toner (so something must be dirty).

I'll check out the service manual to see if it handles those two problems.

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mariasinche 12 years ago

Hello,

Somebody can help me how to fixing 21OO HP laserjet printer, I did a mistak e a took from the base of the printer a TRAY 2 PICKUP ROLLER, I should take just a part but I did all, I have small piece plastic black I do not know where to place please help me, I call to somebody fix they ask me for a lot money

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Percival P. Cassidy 12 years ago

Does this diagram help?

Perce

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