Granules in Fuser Oil

Discussion in 'Xerox iGen3, iGen4, & iGen5 Digital Presses' started by ThomiGen, Feb 2, 2012.

  1. ThomiGen

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    During my fuser tank maintenance I noticed granule sediment. Could not figure out where is came from till I pulled out the heat rod of the meter roll. Wow what a mess. I cleaned it up as best I could. Does anyone think that this sediment could cause random intermittent deletions that look like fuser picking artifacts?
     

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  2. peels

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    I bet it could....do you think maybe it is wadded up paper dust?
     
  3. Stiv

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    Spray powder? Are you in with the offset presses?
     
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    yes....the "drying" powder.....

    we get that from a heidelberg here. it can be pretty miserable at times.
     
  5. ThomiGen

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    I have a variable athletic ticket book that runs on pre-perfed stock and with the ATA enabled...so it could be paper dust from the perfs?
     
  6. ThomiGen

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    Every now and then I run preprinted offset stock but not too often.
     
  7. Stiv

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    Oh yea. Check out your fuser web roll for crap too. I'll bet it has a line of caked crap on it.
     
  8. ThomiGen

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    Cool thanks Stiv.
     
  9. peels

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    Pardon the noob.... what is ATA?
     
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    Auto Transfer Assist: another cool trick that puts the machine in transfer overdrive which may help the transfer of images onto textured stock (linen, parchment, perforated/die cut, weird stuff like that). I'd tell you how to do it, but then I'd have to kill ya. No just kidding: NVM 7681 set value to true.
     
  11. ThomiGen

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    Correct, also you can control the amount of assist in Media Settings_Subsystem Attributes...transfer C from 0-1800 : )
     
  12. peels

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    LOL super duper secret... thanks. (this message will self destruct in 10 seconds)
     

  13. jaed

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    That looks like some kind of mineral build up. The liquid in that tray is white, maybe the heat from the fuser is crystalizing the white stuff in the liquid?
     
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