Toner Cartridge Printing Defects: Causes and Solutions

Generic listing of toner cartridges common problems, and how to solve them. It’s not specifically relate to any particular toner cartridge or laser printer. Repeating defects, black dots or lines, vertical black or grey lines down the pages, vertical streaks, gray pages, light print, vertical white lines, light or dark horizontal banding across the page, ghosting, gray background, random dots or sprinkles across the pages, blank print, black pages, random Lines,white horizontal lines, banding, only half page printed and other defects. 1:08 Perfectly Straight or gray lines 3:49 Large gray smears of toner across the page 5:13 Light Prints 6:06 Fine Straight vertical white line or lines 6:29 Vertical white line or lines 7:04 Ghosting: When a printed image is repeated lightly at bottom 7:58 Totally Blank Page 9:53 Too Dark Page 10:29 Gray Background Over the Entire Page, with no toner on the drum 11:35 Dark Horizontal Banding across the page, not at the same di