On 16/01/2019 14:03, Martin Brown wrote:
On 16/01/2019 12:15, Michael Chare wrote:
My Dell C1760nw laser printer no longer wants to print labels
properly. Instead of all the ink sticking to the paper properly first
time some of it gets left behind and then printed lower down the page
messing up what is supposed to be there.

Wrong sort of label stock that the toner doesn't adhere to is the most
likely cause - some have traces of silicone on the front face.

Something is worn somewhere that makes less good contact - I have two
identical Dell 1230CN printers (I bought a spare to get the 3 sets of
free toner). Towards the end of its useful life the first became more
and more erratic about printing onto challenging thick paper and labels.
Eventually it wouldn't print reliably on anything.

It used to work properly. I used a different brand of labels which are
a bit better. How can I solve this problem and why might it have
started happening?

Plain paper is printed properly.

That will change when things wear out a bit more. Other possibility is
that the toner you are using is not matched to the printer and failing
to behave correctly when heated. Slippy labels is most likely though if
it still works consistently on equivalent thickness ordinary paper.

I bought the printer 5 years ago. I don't use it very much. At first I
thought I might be using a different brand of cartridge, but I later
realised that was not the case. I was not aware I could change the paper
type to labels but doing that has made a difference. I always amazes me
how quickly google can tell me about people with the same problem.

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Michael Chare