Laser printer density -

[Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA]

On 05/21/14 15:03, Rick Stevens wrote:
>> On my Brother printers, the corona wire is part of the drum assembly,
>> so if the OP's is the same, he's already replaced it,... I believe he
>> said in the OP that he had replaced the drum.
>
> I have Samsung printers at home and a big ol' Brother MFC9840CDW at the
> office. And yeah, the corona wire seems to be embedded in the drum
> package on all of them. I was sorta grasping at straws trying to help
> Bob out. I know how frustrating that all is.
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 

Yes the drum ass'y , and therefore the corona wire, is new, bought it a 
couple of weeks ago. As I said the printer still works and
is convenient to use, I am just trying to optimize it for my own needs.

To my surprise I even found a .pdf service manual for it on line at:
downloadcenter.mustek.co.za/list.php?dir=Repository%2FPrinters%2FBrother%2FOther%2F&download=ZL2E(HL5100)_SM.pdf

The only information I found about setting the Density was a suggestion 
from the people I buy the toner from. The guy I spoke to mentioned a 
Windows menu item with a slider to set lighter/darker. He seemed 
knowledgeable and said that Density typically can vary between -5 and +5 
although it is normally at zero which is what I see on both printers.

That was sufficient to inspire me to install WindowsXP in Virtualbox. I 
have not gone that beyond that point yet after finding I did not know 
how to connect WindowsXP to my LAN. It's just another thing to mess with 
... I haven't had a Windows set up since RH-5.3.

Thanks for the responses,

Bob



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