Granules in Fuser Oil

[ThomiGen]

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?

 

[peels]

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

 

[Stiv]

Spray powder? Are you in with the offset presses?

 

[peels]

yes....the "drying" powder.....

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

 

[ThomiGen]

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?

 

[ThomiGen]

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

 

[Stiv]

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

 

[ThomiGen]

Cool thanks Stiv.

 

[peels]

Pardon the noob.... what is ATA?

 

[richman]

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.

 

[ThomiGen]

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

 

[peels]

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.

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

 

[jaed]

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?