Cleaning the drums and main charger in a colour copier

12 August 2026

A technician pulls out the drum and developer units of a colour copier and cleans the main charger. He explains that these parts make the image on the paper and must be clean for proper print quality. Each colour (black, cyan, magenta and yellow) has its own unit.

What's said in this video

[unclear] Maybe drums. This is your main charge and your developer. This will make the image on the paper. Normally [unclear]. Make sure your main charge is clean. This will also reduce toner usage [unclear] main charge side, and these are your LEDs. [unclear] is clean [unclear] after a while. That's why that needs to be clean to give you the proper quality. Once it's done cleaning this side you just check if it's not leaking for any parts. So when it gets to this stage here it's already telling it's done a couple of [unclear]. You going to have to do it for each one. Toners are different colours, so this one is black. You get cyan, magenta and yellow. Just make sure everything else is kept in, otherwise you may have these issues as well.
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