Drum cleaning blades

Drum cleaning blades: the wiper line of the parts range

Blades （刮板） are a standing line of Guangzhou Xinxiangyin's copier parts range, quoted by copier model. The symptom side of a worn blade — streaks, grey veiling, dirty margins — is set out in the next section, worked through with the model's own service procedure and the actual test prints.

There is no universal blade in this catalogue: blades are listed and quoted by the copier model they serve. Order by copier model, and treat the blade as the drum's partner part — the two are priced together on the OPC drums page's logic and stocked together on the parts shelf.

Reading blade wear before it reads your output

• Fine lines in the print direction — the blade edge is one candidate; if the lines persist after a change to a known-good cartridge, the blade or drum is the next place to look, with the model's service procedure and the actual test prints deciding.
• Overall grey background — the cleaning blade is one candidate; the same symptom has imaging-side causes as well, with the model's service procedure and the actual test prints deciding.
• Toner dusting inside the machine — the cleaning station is one candidate; dusting can also start elsewhere along the paper path, with the model's service procedure and the actual test prints deciding.
• Age itself — calendar age is a legitimate replacement reason to raise at drum service, whether or not the machine prints much.

When a drum is changed or a unit is rebuilt, inspect the blade while the machine is open: if its edge is worn or nicked, change it in that same opening rather than leave it for a second visit; the maker's procedure for your model governs the interval. The fuller symptom method is in toner cartridge vs drum unit, and the waste toner box line has a guide of its own: what is a waste toner box?