Any Samsung Specialists Here?

[mrdee 1]

I have a Samsung CLP-300 colour laser printer, have had it for a few years and I have always been happy with it.However, lately, the printer seems to have developed a little (?) fault, in that, when I start to print a document, the machine spins up as usual, making the usual starting noises, but before the page begins to print, I hear someting going "tac, tac, tac, tac".After that, the page prints normally, only once did I see a small black stripe on top of the page which shouldn't be there, but it normally prints with no problem.As far as I know, the printer has not dropped, or has not had a knock.What i do see, when I take the paper tray out, is a sort of black plastic hook hanging down, I cannot remember seeing that before.Also, when you open the back of the printer, there is a sort of metal box there, and that seems to be slightly loose.Does anyone recognise the symptoms, or even better, know a cure for them?I obviously do not want to spend an amount of monay on it which would be able to buy me a new printer.Thank you in advance.

[Iniyila 2]

I had one of these printers months ago, the metal box you mentioned (which i think is from aluminium) is not very tight and is a little loose , at least it was for me. i don't remember any black plastic hook as far as i remember but i remember the black stripes , i had those in mine too sometimes when printing things , those will happen more and more until you will face one of these two conditions : 1. your cartridge runs out of tuner so you have to change it. 2. your cartridge will stop working and you have to change it !I think this printer comes with a badly made drum in cartridge which is the main reason for getting that black stripes before tuner ends, actually in many printers like canon and hp the drum will be good even if you charge the cartridge for the second or third time ! but in this model the quality of drum is not good that even it can't work until the tuner ends.Don't worry you don't have to buy another printer you just have to buy another cartridge which of course is not cheap too , but as i remember original cartridge of samsung printers came with some type of warranty (i currently have a canon one and i don't remember exactly) so if your cartridge has warranty you can take it to samsung repair center to change it or repair it but if it does not again you can send it to repair but it will cost you a little.After my great experience with samsung printers i decided not to get them anymore because printer is something that needs repair regularly and i suggest everyone to get a brand that will cost you less when you try to repair them , i found canon and hp to be a lot better in repair price compared to samsung.