Laser Printer Issue

[cologne2792]

I have inherited a 10 year old Canon Colour Laser Printer.
All was well until I started getting blue banding on the printed pages.
Initially, it was just on the right of the page but seems to be getting worse.
On opening the printer up I can see blue toner present on the surface of the toner cartridge.
Is this simply of a case of replacing the toner cartridge or something worse?

Currently set to mono printing and all is fine.

[imck]

What Model?
Some Colour Laser Printers have separate Toner (just a box of powder).
Some have a full Cartridge that includes the Toner, Developer and Photoconductor.

Ex Printer Tech. Not familiar with Canon but they all work pretty much the same way.

[Ozone]

It sounds like the drum cleaning blade on the cyan unit has failed, Changing the Cyan drum unit is probably the best option but it depends on the model as to what replaceable units it has.

[imck]

Ozone said:

It sounds like the drum cleaning blade on the cyan unit has failed, Changing the Cyan drum unit is probably the best option but it depends on the model as to what replaceable units it has.

Very apt User Name!

[cologne2792]

Thank you both very much for your feedback.

It's a Canon i-Sensys LBP5360 made in 2010

[Ozone]

imck said:

Very apt User Name!

Well spotted

cologne2792 said:

It's a Canon i-Sensys LBP5360 made in 2010

The cheapest option would be to buy a compatible Cyan toner cartridge if you are not too concerned with print quality and unit life. Also if you know that you have genuine cartridges, try and stick with a single genuine replacement.