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Step 1

              Repairing Samsung clx-3175 Colour Laser Printer Fix black vertical lines
  • Do your printed papers have these or similar vertical black and yellow lines?
  • Then this is the tutorial for you to make them disappear

Do your printed papers have these or similar vertical black and yellow lines?

Then this is the tutorial for you to make them disappear

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Step 2

  • Open the printer front and take everything out
  • Take out the toners
  • Take out the drum together with the waste bin

Open the printer front and take everything out

Take out the toners

Take out the drum together with the waste bin

Step 3

  • Your printer should now look like in the image attached
  • Use a flashlight to see inside the printer
  • On the glossy black plastic you will see vertical lines of color which are the cause of your printers problem

Your printer should now look like in the image attached

Use a flashlight to see inside the printer

On the glossy black plastic you will see vertical lines of color which are the cause of your printers problem

Step 4

  • Use a small white paper and try to stick it into the top - like shown
  • Move it from left to right and drag it out again
  • You will see that it is pretty dirty afterwards
  • Do this multiple times and clean the black glossy plastic with a cotton cloth - be careful not to scratch it

Use a small white paper and try to stick it into the top - like shown

Move it from left to right and drag it out again

You will see that it is pretty dirty afterwards

Do this multiple times and clean the black glossy plastic with a cotton cloth - be careful not to scratch it

Step 5

  • Close the printer again and print some pages
  • After the 2nd or 3rd the black vertical lines should be gone completely
  • Have fun - again!

Close the printer again and print some pages

After the 2nd or 3rd the black vertical lines should be gone completely

Have fun - again!

To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.

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garthnathaniel - Oct 29, 2016

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Michael I have a thick horizontal line that repeats as a Ghost image. Will this help fix it? I have tried cleaning the paper track and the rollers etc, with no such luck.

Kevin Voyson - Oct 29, 2016

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same here, if i print a blank page it has various horizontal shadows and looks dirty

visitor visitor - Jun 25, 2017

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My printer was many years practically only B&W because of awful colors. This trick helped to restore colors. Thank you!

Jean-Baptiste Beaufreton - Feb 22, 2018

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Step 4: you can also clean the bottom (and not only the top) of the black glossy plastic: it was the root cause of my black lines

Tested with CLX-3185FW

Thanks

thijs kunst - Apr 27, 2019

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this will laso work for the samsunc clp-310(n,w) and the clp-315(n,w)