Summit Laser Products - HP LJ-1012 Toner Cartridges
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1. As with the 1150 1200 and 1300 these machines do not have a display panel All the error codes consist of different pattern of the three lights We will update this as soon as the Service Manual is released Top light blinking Cartridge door open no print cartridge installed or there is a paper jam All three lights on Fatal error turn the printer off and unplug it for 30 minutes If the error still exists the printer has a major problem There is no information yet on what these problems may be The service manual has not been released yet All three lights blinking A printer initialization is in progress All three lights cycle in sequence The printer is initializing the cleaning page is being run or a job cancel command has been sent 2003 Summit Laser Products Inc Any attempt to reproduce any part of these instructions without the written consent of Summit Laser Products Inc is prohibited All registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners Contact Summit Laser Products Toll Free Orders 800 221 3516 Toll Free Fax 888 791 9188 International Orders 1 631 218 8376 International Fax 1 631 218 3285 Domestic Sales E mail sales summitlaser com International Sales E mail export summitlaser com Technical Support 1 631 218 8376 Technical Support E Mail tech summitlaser com Mail Summit Laser Products 95 Orville Drive Bohemia New York 11716 USA Please report any broken links to web2. are going to replace the magnetic roller sleeve press in from the metal hub side with a small screwdriver to drive the plastic hub out This hub is a different style than previous Canon HP designs The contact hub has a spring but the end of the magnet does not protrude from the assembly It is still keyed however and when re installed must be set so that the keyed end is in its slot The black and white end caps on the roller are unique for each side The black will fit both sides but is designed for the contact side the white will only fit the non contact side See Figures 32 33 amp 34 24 Remove the DR Blade There is double sided tape under the blade that keeps it in place and seal off any leaks If you are re using the blade a quick swipe with a lint free cloth dampened with alcohol will re activate the glue If not replace the tape with new double sided tape If this is not done that cartridge will leak See Figures 35 amp 36 FIGURE 32 FIGURE 33 FIGURE 34 7 FIGURE 35 FIGURE 36 25 Fill through the Mag roller opening with 150g of 1012 toner You can fill through the fill hole but unless a seal is installed you must hold the magnetic roller assy in place a very tricky thing to do See Figure 37 26 If you are going to seal the cartridge it should be placed on top of the rail areas shown in Figure 38 The seal tab fits through the right side of the cartridge fill plug side Figure 39 shows both the seal exit
3. slot and the fill plug Figure 40 is a close up of the seal exit slot Figure 41 shows the seal and exit port seal installed Note that it has a rubber gasket that seals off the opening This port seal must be removed before inserting a seal Make sure it is put back or the cartridge will leak after the seal has been removed FIGURE 37 FIGURE 39 FIGURE 40 FIGURE 41 27 Re install the doctor Blade Remember to clean replace the double sided tape seal See Figure 42 28 Install the left side end cap on the toner hopper Clean and replace the conductive grease on the magnetic roller contact plate See Figures 43 amp 44 29 Re assemble the toner hopper section Place the Mag Roller Assy in the hopper and install onto the contact plate side first Align the keyed magnet into the keyed slot You can see the slot from the outside of the hopper See Figure 45 FIGURE 42 FIGURE 43 FIGURE 44 FIGURE 45 30 Install the right side gears end cap and screw See Figures 46 amp 47 31 Place the two halves together and insert the two pins You will have to open the drum cover slightly to do this as the arms cover the pin holes Make sure that the pins are slightly pushed in so that they do not interfere with the drum cover arms See Figures 48 amp 49 CO FIGURE 46 FIGURE 47 FIGURE 48 FIGURE 49 32 Install the Right side outer end cap and two screws See Figure 50 33 Install the small tension spring acro
4. the wiper blade with your preferred lubricant and re install See Figure 20 16 Re install the cleaned PCR Note that a new OEM PCR has a small amount of conductive grease on the black contact side See Figures 21 amp 22 FIGURE 19 FIGURE 20 FIGURE 21 FIGURE 22 17 Re Install the OPC Drum Slide the hub end onto the drum axle and drop in place This axle pin is very hard to remove so this is actually the best way See Figures 23 amp 24 18 Install the drum cover This at first glance can be confusing Slide the cover on from the handle side of the cartridge Snap the shaft into place and install the spring See Figures 25 26 amp 27 FIGURE 23 FIGURE 24 FIGURE 25 FIGURE 26 FIGURE 27 19 On the toner hopper remove the right side toner hopper end cap and screw See Figure 28 20 Remove the three white gears as shown in Figure 29 These gears are loose and will fall off if not removed 21 Remove the left side end cap This is the side that houses the Magnetic roller contacts and fill plug See Figure 30 22 Remove the magnetic roller assembly Although not necessary find it easier to keep the magnetic roller and end caps all together Clean out any remaining toner from the hopper Make sure that the magnetic roller seals in the hopper are clean These are the same type as used in all the newer HP cartridges See Figure 31 FIGURE 28 FIGURE 29 DOUBLE SIDED TAPE FIGURE 30 FIGURE 31 23 If you
5. ing with these cartridges Figure A shows the new protective insert Basically it is a formed very stiff bubble wrap insert We tossed it around here to see if we could damage the cartridge we couldn t FIGURE A With the 1012 having a street price of 199 00 as of October 2003 these machines are going to be very popular If you are looking to get a test machine just know that only the 1015 has a parallel port The 1010 and 1012 have a USB port only For those machines if you are using full black and full gray pages you will have to print them from a computer Excell is an easy way to create them All three machines also have a very small foot print They are being advertised by HP as the perfect printer for a crowded workspace personal printer for corporate execs Etc The 1010 runs at 12ppm with a max DPI of 600 this is with Ret The 1012 and 1015 machines run at 15ppm with a max DPI of 1200 using Ret The 1010 and 1012 both come with 8MB RAM where the 1015 comes with 16MB RAM As stated above only the 1015 has a parallel port The 1010 and 1012 have a USB port only USB 2 0 All three list the first page out in 8 seconds We have sent some fairly complicated pages to our 1012 and 8 seconds is a fair estimate Cartridge troubleshooting as well as running test pages cleaning pages and some simple printer troubleshooting will be covered at the end of this article REQUIRED TOOLS e Phillips head screw driver Sma
6. ll Common screw driver Dremel type tool with side grinding bit Spring Hook e Jewelers Screwdriver set MATERIALS NEEDED Cy e 150g HP 1012 toner Unique to this series for the Q2612A cartridge 2500 pages New Drum Unique to this series Wiper Blade Unique to this series Dr Blade Unique to this series e Magnetic roller Unique to this series Sealing Strip HP 1200 Cotton Swabs e Isopropyl Alcohol e Drum Padding Powder e Conductive Grease DISASSEMBLY 1 Remove the Right side end cap from the cartridge and the two screws See Figure 1 The pins in these cartridges are very similar to the HP 1200 cartridge One way to remove them is to cut two small holes in basically the same area as the 1200 This method is covered in steps 2 3 The alternative method is covered in steps 4 8 2 Drill a shallow hole on each side of the cartridge as indicated by Figures 2 3 amp 4 XN i ig 3 p tS Ee AS Ja 5 IF FIGURE 1 FIGURE 2 FIGURE 3 FIGURE 4 3 Push the pins out with a modified Allen wrench or a modified spring hook See Figures 5 amp 6 Steps 4 8 are the alternative method of opening the cartridge Although it is easier and faster you must be careful not to bend the drum guard too far out or it will break making the cartridge useless 4 Bend the drum guard carefully away from the drum See Figure 7 5 While holding the guard away from the drum gra
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8. nical DOCUMENT LI Laser Products e T aana Company Info Publications Special Features Contact Us Overview s Required Tools Materials Needed Disassembly Trouble Shooting Running Test Pages Running Cleaning Pages Printer Troubleshooting Remanufacturing the HP LJ 1012 Toner Cartridges DOC 0334 OVERVIEW Cy In September 2003 Hewlett Packard released the LaserJet 1012 printer The HP 1012 series of laser printers are based on a 15 ppm 1200dpi Canon engine As with the 1150 cartridge this cartridge does not have a chip There is not even a location for one The Q2612A is rated for 2 000 pages Physically the cartridges look like a cross between the 1200 15X and the AX 1100 The pin system holding the two halves of the cartridge together is similar to the HP 1200 One method of removing them is to cut two small holes in the top to get access to the pins The hole location on these cartridges is almost identical to the 1200 and the same methods you use for the 1200 should work here Another easier method is to bend out the drum guard remove the drum and push the pins out from the inside The draw back to this method is that if you bend out the guard too much it will break and the cartridge is shot The magnetic roller has a very thin copper spring as a contact Although in our testing so far the spring has held up we are concerned that over time it will get weak and cause a contact issue HP has changed their packag
9. sp the drum by the large gear and carefully work it out of the cartridge See Figure 8 FIGURE 6 FIGURE 7 FIGURE 8 6 Remove the PCR and clean with your standard PCR cleaner We have been using Nu Finish for years with out any problems See Figure 9 7 Remove the small spring that keeps the tension between the two halves This spring does not have what looks like a solid perch but they have not come off by themselves so far in our testing See Figure 10 8 Push the pins out from the inside of the cartridge See Figures 11 amp 12 FIGURE 9 FIGURE 10 FIGURE 11 FIGURE 12 9 Separate the two halves See Figure 13 NOTE If You did NOT cut holes in the top of the cartridge skip to step 12 10 Remove the drum Lift the drum out by the drive gear Pull the drum to the left so that it comes off the drum axle pin See Figures 14 amp 15 11 Remove the PCR and clean with your standard PCR cleaner We have been using Nu Finish for years with out any problems See Figure 16 12 Remove the drum cover Release the spring and gently pry up the two sides Be very careful when removing as the plastic is very delicate See Figures 17 amp 18 f P i FIGURE 13 FIGURE 14 FIGURE 15 FIGURE 16 FIGURE 17 FIGURE 18 13 Remove the Wiper Blade this blade is unique to the 1012 series By the time you are reading this new blades should be available See Figure 19 14 Clean out all the waste toner 15 Coat
10. ss the two halves as shown The easiest way is to hook the long side on first and pull it over with the spring hook See Figure 51 FIGURE 50 FIGURE 51 TROUBLESHOOTING Cy Back grounding Gray Streaks This is usually caused by a dirty worn out PCR or a worn out wiper blade Light Print Can be caused by a dirty worn Magnetic Roller or worn doctor blade Solid Black Pages Bad drum ground contact Probably from the drum axle shaft to the contact gear inside the drum Perfectly straight thin black lines down the page Scratched drum Black dots that repeat every 3 Bad drum or something is stuck to the drum surface Dark black Horizontal lines Are usually caused by either a bad PCR connection a pin hole in the PCR or a pin hole in the drum These lines normally run about 1 8 thick and can show as few as 4 times page and as many as 12 times page Tire Tracks on the right edge of the page are caused by a worn out drum Tire Tracks are what we call a vertical shaded area with lines in it that look like tire tread marks in the sand This normally happens to OEM drums Half the page prints the other half is blank The cartridge pin on the blank side is most likely not installed correctly Remove the pin and re install making sure that the pin is inserted into both halves This can also happen to some degree if the long tension spring that fits across both halves is missing RUNNING TEST PAGES Cy Two pages are available from
11. the front panel of the printer the Demo Page and the Configuration Page To run the Demo Page make sure that the ready light is on and briefly press the GO button The Demo Page will print out To run the Configuration Page make sure that the ready light is on and press the GO button for 5 seconds When the GO light turns on release the button Two pages with complete printer info including the page count as well as a supplies status page will print out RUNNING THE CLEANING PAGE The cleaning page for these machines can only be run from the HP Toolbox HP recommends that for best results a transparency be used If a transparency is not available user copier grade paper with a smooth surface To get to the HP Toolbox Go to the Windows Start Menu Programs and HP LaserJet 1010 Choose HP Toolbox The Toolbox opens in a web browser format To run this page make sure the printer is on and the Ready Light is on Access the HP Toolbox and click on the Troubleshooting tab From there click on the Print Quality Tools tab and finally the Cleaning Page The cleaning cycle takes up to 2 full minutes The page will start and stop Do not turn the printer off until the cleaning page has finished printing The cleaning process takes about 2 minutes The cleaning page will stop periodically during the cleaning process Do not turn the printer off until the process has finished PRINTER TROUBLESHOOTING
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