Can I put a used but working fine fuser back in my printer?

[April_23]

I have an Aficio SP c830dn. It developed a print problem. Based on the advice of two techs, I bought a new fuser and installed it. The print problem remains. The previous fuser had more than 80% of its life left. Can I put it back in and store the new fuser til needed?

Thanks!

 

[Ralston18]

Should not be a problem.

What you have determined, I believe, is that the fuser is not the problem per se.

It would help if you can add some description regarding the circumstances and the nature of the print problem.

 

[April_23]

The problem is that printouts have what looks like scuff marks 1"-1.5" from the top of the short edge when printing from the drawer and 1.5" when printing from the bypass tray. The text appears slightly broken (top half of letters is slightly offset from bottom half of letters) and in the margin you can see very faint text from some other page.
Right, the fuser is not the problem as I replaced it and continue to get the same scuff/ghosting on the prints.
I have purchased a ITB but wanted to know if I could put the "old" fuser back in safely.

 

[Ralston18]

I would expect that the original fuser could be put back into place. Good sign that you can swap it out to begin with.

Been awhile, to be honest, but during a time of tight budgets and other circumstances (i.e., a VP of Finance/Accounting who hated computers, IT, and things in general), we often cannibalized printers to create one working printer from two or three others.

However, with the all too common "replace versus repair" thinking these days doing such things may no longer be viable....

Not an issue at all if the printers were out of warranty and we had nothing to lose and any printer we could salvage was valuable.