Apple 12/600PS manual Regular maintenance, Low toner

Regular maintenance

You can perform most regular maintenance tasks, replacing toner cartridges, fuser oil, the photoconductor cartridge, and toner disposal boxes. In addition, when the fuser wears out, you can replace it yourself, following the instructions in Appendix F (or call an Apple-authorized service provider to do it for you).

For information about ordering the replacement supplies, see Appendix A.

Low toner

The toner cartridges hold the toner powder that forms the printed images. Each cartridge should yield about 4,000 pages. If you print many graphic images, you may need to change cartridges more often. If your pages start to look too light, or if you see thin vertical white lines in dark images, it may be time to change the cartridge. Also, the status panel lets you know when toner is low.

A light indicates which color is low.

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When toner is low, the Alert light glows and a toner light comes on.

When you see these lights, it can mean one of two things:

mThe toner powder needs to be redistributed inside the toner cartridge.

mThe cartridge needs to be replaced.

If the lights come on in the middle of a printing job, and the output is still satisfactory, continue printing if you wish. You won’t harm the printer by doing so.

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