HP Laserjet 3200 (black & white) printer/fax/copier/scanner

[MY]

When printing, I have just recently starting getting specks that fall
into a column (a rather narrow band) on each page. The specks are
quite evenly spaced out; they appear about four times on a page. I
changed the toner not too long ago. On the Laserjet, there is a menu
item for "clean printer". I ran this and it ran a paper through the
printer slowly. Unfortunately, that wasn't successful. Any ideas
what to do next? I'd appreciate some help.

-Mike

 

[Michael]

When printing, I have just recently starting getting specks that fall
into a column (a rather narrow band) on each page. The specks are
quite evenly spaced out; they appear about four times on a page. I
changed the toner not too long ago. On the Laserjet, there is a menu
item for "clean printer". I ran this and it ran a paper through the
printer slowly. Unfortunately, that wasn't successful. Any ideas
what to do next? I'd appreciate some help.

-Mike

It's my understanding that HP's don't have a corona wire. If I'm wrong
about that, try cleaning that. The cart for an IBM 4029 has a tab that
can be pulled in and out, which cleans something inside the cart. See
if yours has something like that.

That said, evenly spaced marks from a xerographic device are
characteristic of a dirty drum.