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Hi! I’m Mark Westling with All Brands Copiers, Fax and Laser Printers on behalf of expertvillage.com.
Today we’re going to talk a little bit about maintaining your fax machine and keeping it
clean. These are two very important features when you own a fax machine, all fax machines
have a scanner portion of the machine and a copy portion of the machine inside in which
the copies are made. First we’ll go over maintenance of the scanner, if you open this
up and these are always available to be opened so you can get to the paper if it jams of
your documents, now there’s always a little slit glass in here which the paper scans by.
The most common service call I get is that there’s become some foreign object has gotten
on her and it’s causing lines, if you have lines on your copies and your outgoing faxes
this little glass needs to be cleaned, just open this up, get a soft cloth with a little
Windex or Kleenex on it or alcohol and just wipe it real good. A lot of times someone
will put a document in here with whiteout on it, that whiteout will get on the glass
and will cause a big black streak on all the copies sometimes you have to actually scrape
that off with your fingernail but be careful don’t put any metal objects in here. You
can also clean the rubber feed tires in here with a little alcohol that will help wipe
the toner off and keep the machine operating well, that’s basically it for the scanner
portion. As far as the interior portion of a laser fax what I normally recommend for
my customers is whenever they change the media, the cartridge to go ahead and get a little
can of air and just spray in there, a lot of times it’ll be a little toner or dust
in there go ahead and spray it out, make sure that there are no foreign objects in there
staples, paper clips, anything like that and then go ahead and place your new cartridge
in and you’re good to go. Basically that’s it on the maintenance for laser faxes, very
simple anyone can do it.