TroubleshootingDiagnosticsTroubleshooting
Line Artifacts < 1mm
When a printed film shows one or more thin lines running the length of the print — dark, bright, or white — match the exact pattern to one of the three variants below before you reach for the thermal head.
Applies to
DryStar 5300 (Type 5365/100)
Personnel
1 technician · Service-level technician — runs the STI2 test image, visually distinguishes the dark-line, bright-vertical-line, and white-line patterns below, and cleans the thermal head per chapter 3.6; exchanging the thermal head is a follow-up FRU step if cleaning does not resolve the fault (derived — source does not assign a formal skill-level label to this section).
Steps
0 steps
Source
DD+DIS346.05E — Drystar 5300 Repair and Service, Troubleshooting, Chapter 3.3 (item 11.2.2), p.181-183, Edition 1 Rev.7
Full step-by-step for Line Artifacts < 1mm
All 0 steps are documented in the FSELIB DryStar 5300 service manual — re-authored, web-first, with the real figures from the source.
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View all DryStar 5300 guidesSource: DD+DIS346.05E — Drystar 5300 Repair and Service, Troubleshooting, Chapter 3.3 (item 11.2.2), p.181-183, Edition 1 Rev.7. Preview re-authored by FSELIB — the full procedure with figures and steps is in the paid service manual.