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Laser printer questions

Depending on the actual ambient temp. where the printer is located it could take longer for the fuser to warm up from a cold start. Although your page count isn't that high for a 6 year old printer, it's more about the actual power on time/sleep time interval, or are you powering the printer off then on only when you need it?

It's sitting on a wire shelving unit in my den. It doesn't take as long in the summer.

Yeah, I leave it off unless I'm printing - never saw the need to waste the energy. I like the printer in general, but will always miss one feature of my old Lexmark - it would turn itself on when I told the computer to print
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reply to Sweet Witch
Just saw your other thread on the paper crinkle problem. The fusing subsystem in most laser printers is a combination of heat/pressure. The moisture content of the paper can be a critical factor along with the grain of the paper and the weight. If the pages from the first pass through the printer are allowed to sit long enough in a somewhat humid environment, this will lead to crinkle/creasing issues. Anyway, this issue in conjunction with the warm up time leads me to think you either need to change the environment or maybe replace the fuser assembly.

But the first pages print flawlessly. On the second and third passes, the first few of the batch crinkle but not all.

For the cost of a new fuser assembly I'd be better off with a new printer for the investment.
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reply to Sweet Witch
The first pages haven't been passed through the heat/pressure which essentially wrings out moisture. This potentially leaves these pages to make like a sponge given a humid environment.