Fuser Sleeve & Lubricant
hp Laserjet 4000 / 4050 Series
For rebuilding the RG5-2661 and RG5-2657 Fuser's
Warning: Do not purchase this repair if your printer
is in a FUSER ERROR this repair is for the common poor print
quality associated with a bad fuser.
Great repair that saves money !!
Posted by Unknown on 9th Feb 2014
Suggestion for videos. Using a white background causes the camera to under expose the dark color
subjects i.e. black parts of the subject ... Fuser in this case.
If you use a dark blue background on the table you will get much better detail in the video as the auto exposure feature will work much better.
Posted by Andrew on 24th Apr 2013
I mainly went by the excellent video that showed how to "rebuild" the fuser by changing out this sleeve. The instructions are a bit conflicting, the ones included with the sleeve say to clean with alcohol and completely take off the roller thing, the paper with a big STOP warning say to manually hand-roll the sleeve for 5 to 10 minutes.
In the video, the guy did none of that. I figure he's offering the sleeve, e knows what he's doin', I'm goin' by what he's doin'!
I previously had the sleeve diagnosed as a possible problem when changing the toner on my 4050TN didn't solve print quality issues. At $130 per hour plus parts, I figured give it a shot myself.
Glad I did! I had to run like 10 pages of the paper path test before it finally cleared up and now it looks nice and crisp. I'll probably try to fix my rumbling gears in my 4350N using a kit from this site, too!